3.2022.3: Portrait of a Man Standing at a Desk
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 3.2022.3
- People
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Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, Dutch (Haarlem 1562 - 1638 Haarlem)
Previously attributed to Bartholomeus Spranger, Netherlandish (Antwerp 1546 - 1611 Prague)
- Title
- Portrait of a Man Standing at a Desk
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 16th-17th century
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/361385
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 13.5 × 9.6 cm (5 5/16 × 3 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, lower center, graphite[?]: SPRANGER / PICTOR
- collector's mark: verso, lower left, black stamp: mark of Jacob de Vos Jacobszoon (Lugt 1450)
- collector's mark: verso, black ink stamp (applied three times): mark of I.Q. van Regteren Altena (Lugt 4617)
- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 203
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Jacob de Vos Jacobszoon, Amsterdam (Lugt 1450).[1] [R. W. P. de Vries, Amsterdam, March 9-11, 1920, lot 499 as by Spranger]. [Nicolaas Beets, Amsterdam], exchanged with I.Q. van Regteren Altena (Lugt 4617), possibly in 1925 [2], by descent; to his heirs, sold [through Christie's, Amsterdam, May 13, 2015, lot 119]; to George Abrams, Boston
Notes
[1] Possibly his sale, Roos, Muller et al, Amsterdam, May 22-24, 1883, part of lot 709, portraits by Spranger
[2] Per Christies, 2015, the drawing was "received in part exchange by I. Q. van Regteren Altena with six other drawings and one painting in June (?) 1925 (?). (Inventory book: '110. t. Spranger zijn portret')"
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
- 3.2022.3
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Emil Karel Josef Reznicek, Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius, Haentjens Dekker & Gumbert (Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1961), vol. 1, p. 483 (rejected)
- H. van Hall, Portretten van nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, Swets en Zeitlinger (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1963), p. 312
- Kabinet van tekeningen: 16e eb 17e eeuwse Hollandse en Vlaamse tekeningen uit een Amsterdamse verzameling, exh. cat., Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, 1976), no. 71, pl. 17
- Pieter J. J. van Thiel, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, 1526-1638: A Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné, Davaco Publishers (Doornspijk, The Netherlands, 1999), p. 492 (rejected)
- The I. Q. van Regteren Altena Collection. Part 4, auct. cat., Christie's, Amsterdam (Amsterdam, May 13, 2015), lot 119, repr.
Exhibition History
- Kabinet van tekeningen: 16e en 17e eeuwse Hollandse en Vlaamse tekeningen uit een Amsterdamse verzameling, Museum Boymans, 11/25/1976 - 01/09/1977; Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 01/20/1977 - 03/06/1977; Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, 03/19/1977 - 04/30/1977
Subjects and Contexts
- Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
Verification Level
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