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Identification and Creation

Object Number
7.2019.4
People
Leonaert Bramer, Dutch (Delft, Netherlands 1596 - 1674 Delft, Netherlands)
Title
The Circumcision
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/361331

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash, black chalk, and white opaque watercolor on tan antique laid paper
Dimensions
35.4 × 29.8 cm (13 15/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: Back of frame, Martinspeed Limited label: [handwritten, black ballpoint pen:] 0383 / RICHARD FEIGEN / FEIGEN CHICAGO
  • label: Back of frame, white rectangle: [handwritten, black marker:] CRATE / [typed text:] THE CIRCUMCISION / pen and ink with white heightening on / grey/brown paper, 11 3/4 by 14 inches / Private collection, Boston / [handwritten, graphite:] (TL33728 George Abrams)
  • inscription: recto, top center, brown ink: 6 [cut off]
  • inscription: Verso, center, graphite: 379

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Richard Feigen, New York], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, circa 1974

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
7.2019.4
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Frima Fox Hofrichter, Leonaert Bramer 1596-1674: A Painter of the Night, exh. cat., Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art (Milwaukee, WI, 1992), cat. no. 24, pp.9, 86-87, 90, repr. p. 87

Exhibition History

  • Leonaert Bramer (1596-1674): A Painter of the Night, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, 12/04/1992 - 02/28/1993

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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