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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.317
People
Justus de Gelder, Dutch (Dordrecht 1650 - after 1707 Vianen (or Amsterdam?))
Previously attributed to Circle of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
Previously attributed to Nicolaes Maes, Dutch (Dordrecht 1634 - 1693 Amsterdam)
Previously attributed to Jan Victors (1619/20 - after 1676)
Title
The Family of Lot Leaving Sodom
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/77056

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and gray-brown wash, framing lines (trimmed) in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
20 × 30.6 cm (7 7/8 × 12 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right: mark of Carl Robert Rudolf (Lugt 2811b)
  • inscription: lower right, in graphite: 5
  • watermark: In the 2011 Greenwich exhibition catalogue, p. 173, the watermark is mistranscribed as DIEVAVDE.: DIEVAYDE

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Carl Robert Rudolf, London (Lugt 2811b), sold [via E. Jacobs]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, by 1977

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
1.2018.317
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • C. R. Rudolf, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C. R. Rudolf, Arts Council of Great Britain, London (London, England, 1962), p. 27, cat. no. 147 (as by Jan Victors)
  • Franklin W. Robinson, Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., International Exhibitions Foundation (Washington, D.C, 1977), cat. 77, pp. 79-80, repr. (as Nicolaes Maes)
  • Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1979), vol. 8, no. 1908x, pp. 4270-71, repr. p. 4259 (as the Maes / Pseudo-Victors Group)
  • Peter C. Sutton and William W. Robinson, Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Bruce Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2011), p. 173, no. A13, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C. R. Rudolf, Arts Council Gallery, London, London, 01/05/1962 - 02/03/1962; City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 02/17/1962 - 03/11/1962; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, 03/17/1962 - 04/07/1962
  • Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 01/30/1977 - 03/13/1977; Denver Art Museum, Denver, 04/01/1977 - 05/15/1977; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 06/01/1977 - 07/15/1977

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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