- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2020.229
- People
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Cornelis Bega, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1631/32 - 1664 Haarlem, Netherlands)
- Title
- Sitting Man with his Hat in his Right Hand
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 17th century
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/364039
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Etching on cream antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- image: 8.2 × 5.9 cm (3 1/4 × 2 5/16 in.)
plate: 10.2 × 6.5 cm (4 × 2 9/16 in.)
sheet: 10.3 × 6.7 cm (4 1/16 × 2 5/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower left, in plate: c bega
- inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: B.17 I
- inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: MA116L
- collector's mark: verso, lower center, purple ink: De. v. M. [mark of Dr. Adolf Elder von Marenzeller, Lugt 790].
- inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: P18128
- Provenance
- Dr. Adolf Elder von Marenzeller (1820-1907), Vienna (Lugt 790), sold [through his sale, Albert Kende, Vienna, April 25, 1905 lot 144]. [Artemis Fine Arts, London], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1983, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- Hollstein 17
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in honor of Peter van den Brink, Director of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen
- Accession Year
- 2020
- Object Number
- 2020.229
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Katalog der Sammlung von wertvollen und seltenen Kupferstichen u. Radierungen des XVI. bis XIX. Jahrhunderts: sowie der reichhaltigen Kunst-Bibliothek aus dem Besitze des Herrn Dr. Adolf Edlen von Marenzeller in Wien: darunter eine hervorragende Kollekti, auct. cat., Albert Kende (Vienna, April 25, 1905), p. 14, lot 144
- Exhibition History
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Cornelis Bega: Eleganz und raue Sitten, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Aachen, 03/15/2012 - 06/10/2012; Gemäldegalerie Berlin, 07/01/2012 - 10/02/2012
- Related Works
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