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Identification and Creation

Object Number
3.2022.17
People
Jan van de Velde II, Dutch (Rotterdam(?), Netherlands 1593 - 1641 Enkhuizen, Netherlands)
Title
Head of a Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1639
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/361357

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over graphite on parchment
Dimensions
9.8 × 7.3 cm (3 7/8 × 2 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right, brown ink: ADE / 1639
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: D117/2 [encircled]
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: 18
  • collector's mark: mount, lower right: rooster (mark of Carl Robert Rudolf, Lugt 2811b)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Francis Wellesley, sold [through his sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, June 28, 1920, lot 796 with its pendant]. Sold [Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, June 27, 1922, lot 21 with its pendant]. Sir Robert Witt, London. Carl Robert Rudolf, London, sold [through his estate sale, Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, April 18, 1977, lot 123]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston

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
3.2022.17
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of the Well-Known and Valuable Collection of Plumbago, Pen and Ink, and Coloured Pencil Drawings and Miniatures..., auct. cat., Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London, June 28, 1920), part of lot 796
  • Catalogue of Drawings and Engravings including the Property of ..., auct. cat., Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London, June 27, 1922), lot 21
  • Jan Gerrit van Gelder, Jan van de Velde, 1593-1641, Teekenaar-Schilder, Martinus Nijhoff ('s-Gravenhage, The Netherlands, 1933), no. 85, repr.
  • Fine Dutch, Flemish and German Drawings from the Collection of the late Mr. C. R. Rudolf, Part I, auct. cat. (Amsterdam, April 18, 1977), pp. 73, 144, lot 123, repr. p. 144

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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