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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.199
People
School of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
A Seated Scholar
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298222

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted overall on antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 12 x 8.9 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: mount, verso, lower center, black ink, stamp: L. 1687 (Karl Edouard Liphart)
  • collector's mark: mount, verso, upper left, purple ink, stamp: L. 1758 (Freiherr Reinhold von Liphart)
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: 1.
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower center, black chalk: auf Eeckhout
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower center, black chalk: F. Bol.
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: H9
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower left, black chalk: 962
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower left and lower center, graphite: P9 [? illegible] h/4
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, black chalk: W [?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Karl Eduard von Liphart, Dorpat, Bonn and Florence (L. 1687, with his mark). Freiherr Reinhold von Liphart, Rathshof near Dorpat, Russia (L. 1758, with his mark), his sale; [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 26 April 1898, possibly lot 747]. Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

NOTE: The sale catalogue lists lot 747 as a Rembrandt drawing of a philosopher reading with studies of several male heads which are not on this sheet, the measurement given (14 x 9) is also different from the measurement of this sheet.


Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.199
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 529, pp. 278
  • 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")

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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