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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.197
People
School of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
The Annunciation
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298660

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown, gray and gray-green wash and black chalk on white antique laid paper
Dimensions
15.6 x 12.1 cm (6 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.)
mount: 20.8 x 17.9 cm (8 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: b[o?] [partly cut off]
  • collector's mark: lower left, blue ink, stamp: L. 1902 (Giovanni Morelli)
  • inscription: mount, upper left, brown ink: No 172
  • inscription: on mount, lower center, brown ink over traces of black chalk: Phil. Koninck. [underlined]
  • inscription: mount, lower right, brown ink, scratched out: Rembrandt fe [?]
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, brown ink: L [pound sign] :60.
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper center, graphite: No 134
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper right, graphite: Rembrandt / 59
  • watermark: none visible

    Beta will not be made. No watermark is visible; mount is too thick.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Giovanni Morelli, Milan (L. 1902, with his mark). 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
1932.197
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Corrado Ricci, Rembrandt in Italia, Alfieri & Lacroix (Milan, Italy, 1918), probably pp. 58-63
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 530, pp. 278-79
  • Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1979), vol. 1, cat. no. 282xx, as attributed to Ferdinand Bol
  • Giulio Bora and M. Cristina Rodeschini Galati, I disegni della collezione Morelli, Credito Bergamasco (Bergamo, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 7, p. 254, repr. p. 255, fig. 7
  • 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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