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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2003.150
People
Pseudo-Ortkens, Netherlandish (active c. 1500 - 1530)
Previously attributed to Aert van Ortkens, Netherlandish (active c. 1513 - c. 1538)
Title
Susanna in her Bath Observed by the Elders
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312326

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, with some scattered traces of reddish-brown chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
diam.: 22.6 cm (8 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 10
  • inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: p...
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 9/7
  • watermark: gothic P

    Beta will not be made. Mount is too thick.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Lisbet Rausing
Accession Year
2003
Object Number
2003.150
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Linda Rosenfeld Shulsky, "The 'Fountain' Ewers: An Explanation for the Motif", Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Stockholm, Sweden, 1995), vol. 67, pp. 51-78, p. 56; repr. fig. 9, p. 70
  • Timothy B. Husband, The Luminous Image: Painted Glass Roundels in the Lowlands, 1480-1560, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1995), fig. 1, p. 140

Exhibition History

  • Prints and Drawings from the Time of Holbein and Breugel, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1985 - 01/12/1986
  • Northern Renaissance Stained Glass: Continuity and Transformations, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, 02/02/1987 - 03/08/1987

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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