Your Collection

Add this item to your collection
Harvard Art Museums
Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.181
People
Wallerant Vaillant, Dutch (Lille, France 1623 - 1677 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Portrait of a Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1649
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/77092

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk and white opaque watercolor on brown (formerly blue?) antique laid paper
Dimensions
40.5 x 36.5 cm (15 15/16 x 14 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black chalk, upper left: W. Vaillant fecit / 1649

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
N. Chaikin, Tolochenaz. [Alfred Brod, London]. 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
2018
Object Number
1.2018.181
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

  • Franklin W. Robinson, ed., Things of this World: A Selection of Dutch Drawings from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, 1972), cat. 20, pp. 13 and 59-60, repr. p. 68
  • The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no. 20

Exhibition History

  • Things of this World: A Selection of Dutch Drawings from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 10/31/1972 - 02/25/1973
  • The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/04/1981

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu