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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.198
People
Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Netherlandish (Aelst (now Aalst) 1502 - 1550 Brussels, Belgium)
Title
Crucifixion
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1533-35?
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298221

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on light tan antique laid paper
Dimensions
23 x 16.3 cm (9 1/16 x 6 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: shield ?
  • inscription: former mat, graphite: original by Peter Coecke van Aelst (desginer of tapestries) / very close to van Orley -- his teacher / see Friedlander "a...[illegible]...liche [illegible]...iebte" for article on master.
  • inscription: verso, upper center, brown ink: [illegible]
  • inscription: verso, lower center, brown ink: Lu-

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy; bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles Alexander Loeser, Esq.
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.198
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • O. Wittmann, Jr., "Two Drawings by Pieter Coeck Van Alost", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, November 1938), vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 41-47, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 463, p. 239; vol. 2, repr. fig. 235
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 2, p. 1
  • Nicola Courtright, Northern Travelers to Sixteenth-Century Italy: Drawings from New England Collections, exh. cat., Trustees of Amherst College (Amherst, MA, 1990), cat. no. 1, p. 14
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 119 ("Cartella con due stelle d'oro")
  • Stijn Alsteens, "The Drawings of Pieter Coecke van Aelst", Master Drawings (2014), vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 275-362, cat. no. A17, p. 330
  • Elizabeth Cleland, ed., Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2014), under cat. no. 11, p. 354 (n. 9)
  • William W. Robinson and Susan Anderson, Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2016), p. 14, repr., fig. 3

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954
  • Art of the Northern Renaissance, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 02/13/1967 - 04/01/1967
  • Northern Renaissance Art: Selected Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/28/1984 - 04/08/1984
  • Prints and Drawings from the Time of Holbein and Breugel, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1985 - 01/12/1986
  • Northern Travelers to 16th c. Italy: Drawings from New England Collections, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, 10/29/1990 - 12/09/1990

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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