1932.358: The Infant Jupiter Fed by the Goat Amalthea

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.358

People

Jacques Jordaens, Flemish (Antwerp, Belgium 1593 - 1678 Antwerp, Belgium)

Title

The Infant Jupiter Fed by the Goat Amalthea

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298641

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and red chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

21.9 × 27.3 cm (8 5/8 × 10 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: cross with IHS
• collector's mark: verso, lower right, purple ink, stamp: L. 2231 (Rudolf Peltzer)
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: I 91.
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: J. Jordaens

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Possibly Jacob de Wit. Possibly Joseph Daniel Böhm, Vienna (L. 1442, without his mark). Rudolf Peltzer, Cologne (L. 2231, with his mark). Possibly Werner Weisbach, Basel, Switzerland. Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (L. 2091, without his mark), to 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

1932.358

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 482, pp. 249-50
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella C.L.")

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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