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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.102
People
Jan Lievens, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1607 - 1674 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Boy with his Face in the Shadows
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/360057

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, with later additions of brown, gray, and black ink and wash and touches of white opaque white watercolor, on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
12.7 × 11 cm (5 × 4 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: ? F. Bol / P. F. de Grebber
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 1080/20
  • watermark: center: coat of arms with CB

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet, by descent; to his grandson, Thomas FitzRoy Fenwick; ca. 1942 to Lionel Robinson, London; by descent to his heirs; to [Day and Faber, London], sold; in 2010 to George Abrams.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
1.2018.102
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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), pp. 68-69, cat. no. 16, repr. p. 69

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • Drawn to Daily Life: Dutch Genre Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 03/08/2014 - 09/06/2014

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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