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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1934.204
People
Bernardus Johannes Blommers, Dutch (The Hague, The Netherlands 1845 - 1914 The Hague, The Netherlands)
Title
The Frugal Meal
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298302

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper, mounted to woodpulp board
Dimensions
46.1 x 58.4 cm (18 1/8 x 23 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: L.r., watercolor and gouache: Blommers
  • label: Frame, upper right corner, dark tan label sticked on brown label (both discolored), partly torn off, printed and handwriting, brown ink: (Boston?) (Museu)m of Fine Arts (printed)
    (Blom)mers / (Fr)ugal Meal / (M)ary F. Bartlett / (Common)wealth Ave. / 1895 No. ('No.' printed)

  • label: Back of frame, lower right corner, tan label (discolored), with black decorative border , partly torn off, in handwriting Bartlett sisters, brown ink: Boston [Museum] of Fine Arts / From Mary F. & Fanny Bartlett / The Frugal Meal / original (underlined) Picture (underlined) / B.J. Blommers. [Four other works in our collection (from the Bartletts) have the same black-bordered label with inscriptions in the same handwriting: Israëls (1934.201), Mauve (1934.198), Mesdag (1934.203), and Weissenbruch (1934.197). The label is probably related to an exhibition at the MFA in 1895. See In-house Notes.]
  • inscription: Frame, lower right center, graphite (?): Gold (? or Galil, Gula?) nr. 304 (307?)
    The Weissenbruch frame has the same inscription
  • inscription: Frame, ridge of [spieraam], in graphite (?): C 6800 [this is probably a Doll & Richards number]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mary F. and Fannie Bartlett, Boston; bequest of Mary F. Bartlett to the Fogg Art Museum, 1934

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Mary F. and Fannie Bartlett Collection
Accession Year
1934
Object Number
1934.204
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • New Acquisitions, Print Department, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/21/1895 - 11/01/1895
  • Dutch Water Colors of the 19th Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/19/1935 - 03/31/1935

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