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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.632
People
Govert Flinck, Dutch (Cleves 1615 - 1660 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Gideon and the Angel
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/360054

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on antique laid paper
Dimensions
21.2 × 15.9 cm (8 3/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Strasbourg lily with WR below

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
An officer in Napoleon's army, by descent; to Philips Collection, England. [Sotheby's, Amsterdam, November 4, 2003, lot 55]. [Hill-Stone Galleries, New York], sold; to George Abrams, Boston, 2005, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Michael McNulty, Harvard Law School '56
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.632
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, Amsterdam (Amsterdam, November 4, 2003), lot 55, repr.
  • Peter C. Sutton and William W. Robinson, Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Bruce Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2011), cat. no. 22, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Mirror of Holland: Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Part 2, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 03/26/2011 - 07/31/2011
  • Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, 09/24/2011 - 01/08/2012; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 04/15/2012 - 07/08/2012

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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