1943.519: Baby in a Cradle

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.519

People

Matthijs Maris, Dutch (The Hague, The Netherlands 1839 - 1917 London, United Kingdom)

Title

Baby in a Cradle

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1862

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297877

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite, incised, on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

15.2 x 21 cm (6 x 8 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r., graphite: MM 62

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, New York, 1927, through Martin Birnbaum, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.519

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• David Croal Thomson, E. D. Fridlander, and F. Lessore, Matthew Maris. An Illustrated Souvenir, exh. cat., The French Gallery (Wallis & Son) (London, 1918), no. 46, repr.
• E. D. Fridlander, Matthew Maris, Philip Lee Warner (London and Boston, 1921), repr. p. 137
• Richard Bionda, Matthijs Maris, 2017, p. 99, repr. as 19A

Exhibition History

• Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings, by Matthew Maris, The French Gallery (Wallis & Son), London, 11/01/1917 - 01/01/1918
• 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/14/2022 - 11/09/2022

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