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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1917.221
People
Gérard Edelinck, Flemish (Antwerp, Belgium 1640 - 1707 Paris, France)
Title
The Battle of Anghiari
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Battle for the Standard
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1657
Culture
Flemish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298832

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and brown ink, brown and gray wash and bluish-white opaque watercolor over black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, mounted on heavy antique laid paper and card
Dimensions
45.2 x 64 cm (17 13/16 x 25 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: curatorial file, typeface: RAPHAEL AND AMERICA / NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART / 72. EDELINCK, Gerard (?), after Ruben's [sic] / copy of Leonardo's Combat for the / Standard / The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
  • collector's mark: mount, verso, lower left and lower right, purple ink, stamp: L. 2020 (Juan Jorge Peoli)
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: 664 - [underlined]
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower left, graphite: 1" [three hatch marks] Rubens
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower left, graphite: 1592/EB US / g9./Fo -
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower left, graphite: M. 13968
  • inscription: mount, verso, right center, graphite: 30728/129 / watercolor / framed in case
  • watermark: none visible

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Juan Jorge Peoli, London (L. 2020 with his mark). [R. Ederheimer, New York], sold; to Edward W. Forbes, 1914, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1917.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1917
Object Number
1917.221
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. 473, pp. 246-47; vol. 2, repr.
  • A.T. H., "Cambridge, Fogg Museum of Art" [Review of Mongan-Sachs], Museums Journal (February 1948), vol. 47, no. 11, p. 218, p. 218
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 27, p. 7
  • Julius S. Held, Rubens Selected Drawings, Phaidon Press (London, 1959), vol. 1, under cat. no. 161, p. 157
  • Jeremy Wood, Rubens: Copies and Adaptations From Renaissance and Later Artists: Italian Artists. III. Artists Working in Central Italy and France, Harvey Miller Publishers (London, England, 2011), vol I: under cat. no. 165 p. 80; vol II: p. 5 (no. 4 in list of illustrations), p. 191, repr. as fig. 4
  • Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, January 30, 2019), p.26, under lot 10

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954
  • Precision and Prestige: The Arts of Engraving, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/11/2001 - 12/02/2001
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2017 - 12/12/2017

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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Verification Level

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