1898.119: Interior of a Peasant's House with Men Smoking and Quarrelling and Children Playing

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1898.119

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Interior of a Peasant's House with Men Smoking and Quarrelling and Children Playing

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298886

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Moistened black chalk and graphite on off-white antique laid paper

Dimensions

19.6 × 26.2 cm (7 11/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower right, brown ink: D. T.
• watermark: J [fleur-de-lis] BERGER FIN / AUVERGNE 1742
• inscription: former mat, graphite: [left edge:] 511. [left center:] weaver Pieter de Bloot [lower edge:] David Tenniers / poor drwg / of period / Sketch in charcoal original / from Ewins' Col
• collector's mark: verso, lower center, purple ink stamp and brown ink: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 511 (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Possibly Ewins, possibly sold; to John Witt Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, bequest; Belinda Lull Randall, 1892, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1892.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall

Accession Year

1898

Object Number

1898.119

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. 551, p. 290

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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