3.2022.8: A Red-Breasted Merganser
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 3.2022.8
- People
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Pieter Holsteyn II, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1614 - 1673 Haarlem, Netherlands)
- Title
- A Red-Breasted Merganser
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 17th century
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/361353
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gouache, watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 15.4 × 18.8 cm (6 1/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 146-11=119
- inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: Redbreasted merganser
- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 86 / P
- inscription: verso, upper left, brown ink: 123
- inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: [obscured by hinge]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Alister Mathews, London](?) sold; to Maida and George Abrams, 1967
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
- 3.2022.8
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Subjects and Contexts
- Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
Verification Level
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