1932.372: Studies of Three Men's Heads and a Chalice; verso: Landscape

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.372

People

Circle of Master of the Hortulus Animae, Netherlandish (active c. 1500 - )

Title

Studies of Three Men's Heads and a Chalice; verso: Landscape

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Culture

Netherlandish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298587

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Transparent watercolor, brown ink, and pink and white opaque watercolor on gray prepared paper; verso: brown ink

Dimensions

irregular: 8 x 9.5 cm (3 1/8 x 3 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: former mount, brown ink: [first hand] N. Price bought at Myors / the miniature Paitners sale / March 1790 / [second hand] Holbien / [third hand] bought at the sale of W. Russel August 1884. / W. Mitchell. / [in pencil] Bought
• collector's mark: verso, lower left, black ink, stamp: L. 2638 (William Mitchell)
• watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Possibly Jeremiah Meyer, London, his sale; [Greenwood, London, 3-6 March 1790], sold; to Uvedale Price, Herefordshire, his sale; [Sotheby and Wilkinson, London, 3 May 1854, lot 101 (as Holbein)]. William Russell, London, his sale; [Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 10-12 December 1884, lot 356 (as Holbein)], sold; to William Mitchell, London (L. 2638 with his mark), his sale; [F.A.C. Prestel, Frankfurt am Main, 7 May 1890, lot 56 (as Holbein)], sold; to Wawra (possibly C.J. Wawra, Vienna). 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

1932.372

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

• Ruth S. Magurn, "A Sheet of Studies by a Flemish Miniaturist", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, November 1938), vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 25-30, repr.
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 465, p. 240, vol. 2, repr. figs. 236 and 237
• Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), p. 11, cat no. 39 p. 103
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella C.L.")

Exhibition History

• Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
• Prints and Drawings from the Time of Holbein and Breugel, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1985 - 01/12/1986

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level