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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.370
People
Manner of Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, Netherlandish (Breda (?), Belgium 1526/30 - 1569 Brussels, Belgium)
Title
Carnival Figures; verso: Carnival Figures
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298586

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink with incidental red and black chalk on off white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
Dimensions
12.8 x 17.5 cm (5 1/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink: van Oúde brúegel
  • inscription: former mat, graphite: possibly Breughel; / rapid sketch done in the / Bosch manner
  • watermark: none

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 A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.370
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. 460, pp. 237-238
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella C.L.")
  • Christina Currie and Dominique Allart, The Brueg[H]el Phenomenon. Paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger with a Special Focus on Technique and Copying Practice, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (Brussels, Belgium, 2012), volume III, pp. 798-799, reproduced figs. 557a, 557b

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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