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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.113
People
Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen, British (London 1593 - 1661 Utrecht)
Previously attributed to Cornelis Visscher, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1628/29 - 1658 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Portrait of a Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1656
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/358748

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
Dimensions
33.2 × 25.8 cm (13 1/16 × 10 3/16 in.)
mount: 39.4 × 31.8 cm (15 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, mount, brown ink: Vischer
  • inscription: lower left, black chalk: C. de / Viƒscher / fecit.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Sotheby Mak van Waay B. V., Amsterdam, April 25, 1983, lot 65, as by Visscher]. [William H. Schab Gallery, New York, 1984]. Fr. John Walch, Oklahoma. [Freeman's Auction, Philadelpha, June 17, 2014, lot 4, as by Visscher, unsold]. Private Collection, Massachusetts. [Nissman, Abromson, Ltd., Brookline, MA], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2017

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William W. Robinson Fund
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.113
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dutch, Flemish and German Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby Mak van Waay (Amsterdam, April 25, 1983), pp. 27, 109, lot 65 [as by Visscher], repr. p. 109
  • From Albrecht Duerer to Jacques Villon: Five Centuries of Master Prints and Drawings, auct. cat., William H. Schab Gallery (New York, 1984), pp. 16-17, cat. no. 10, repr. p. 16 as by Visscher
  • Annemarie Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850: Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gaßner, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, 2011), vol. 1, p. 165, under cat. no. 208, note 3

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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