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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.161
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Winter
Other Titles
Former Title: The Month of January
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299481

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, gray wash, and trace of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and black chalk, vertical [ruled?] line in graphite
Dimensions
29.5 x 28.9 cm (11 5/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
Mount: 37 x 36.2 cm (14 9/16 x 14 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, red chalk: 192 [or 152?]
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper center, brown ink: Hans Holbein
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: x 10
  • inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite: S
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: W
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: L 242-0-
  • watermark: mount: [unidentified and illegible, beginning with W]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Christie's, London, 14 April 1992, lot 177A (as Circle of Pieter Coecke van Aelst)], sold; [to Vermeer Associates, Ltd., Brampton, Ontario], long-term loan; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1992, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Deborah Loeb Brice
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
2003.161
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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