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Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.2022.7
People
Joris Hoefnagel, Flemish (1542 - 1600)
Title
Vanitas
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/361321

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on parchment
Dimensions
sight: 11.2 × 16.7 cm (4 7/16 × 6 9/16 in.)
framed: 25 × 30.8 cm (9 13/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper center, gold:
    Contuere hoc quio sit genio tantumque vacato ~ / Quam lubet: huic fies tu similisqe. semel.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Antoon van Welie, The Hague, sold [through his sale, Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, April 7, 1936, lot 45]. [Vitale Bloch, The Hague, 1941-1955]. [1] Private collection, The Netherlands. Sold [through Sotheby's, London, June 27, 1974, lot 84]. [Alfred Brod Gallery, London], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston

Notes
[1] per Sam Segal

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
Accession Year
2022
Object Number
3.2022.7
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Collection Antoon van Welie, auct. cat., Mak van Waay (Amsterdam, April 7, 1936), p. 28, lot 45
  • Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, The School of Prague. Painting at the Court of Rudolf II, University of Chicago Press (Chicago and London, 1988), pp. 208-209, cat. no. 9.13, repr. p. 208
  • Marie-Louise Hairs, Les peintres flamands de fleurs au XVIIe siécle, La Renaissance du Livre (Tournai, 1998), vol. I, p. 223; vol. II, p. 32
  • [Reproduction only], Advertisement for Thomas Le Claire Kunst, Apollo Magazine, (London, November 2003)., repr.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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