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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2009.212
People
Juriaen Ovens, Dutch (Tonning, Schleswig-Holstein 1623 - 1678 Friedrichstadt)
Title
Unidentified Scene from Classical History
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1665
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/188230

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, mounted overall
Dimensions
22.6 x 21.9 cm (8 7/8 x 8 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, mount, upper left, black ink: Selliers 844. [L. 2281, L. Selliers]
  • inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite: franck / 861 [L. 946 and 947, Alfred Ritter von Franck]
  • inscription: verso, mount, left center, graphite: Z 14 1/4
  • inscription: verso, mount, lower left, graphite: JHoegstraeten van [two illegible words] bildnis Belvedere / [illegible] / van Hög... [illegible]...salt...[illegible] 1844 franck
  • collector's mark: verso, mount, lower right, black ink, stamp: L. 2643 [twice] (William Pitcairn Knowles)
  • collector's mark: verso, mount, lower right, black ink, stamp: L. 550 (Grégoire Strogonoff)
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower left, graphite: Rembrandt? [crossed out]
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower left, graphite: ...J Koninck [crossed out]
  • watermark: three half moons

    Beta will not be made. Mount is too thick.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
L. Selliers, Vienna (L. 2281, without his mark). Alfred Ritter von Franck, Vienna and Graz (L. 947, with his mark), his sale; [F.A.C. Prestel, Frankfurt am Main, 4-5 December 1889, lot 100 (as Samuel van Hoogstraaten)]. Count Gregori Sergeievitch Stroganoff, Rome (L. 550, with his mark). William Pitcairn Knowles, Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643, with his mark). Sold [Lucien Goldschmidt, New York, 1980]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (L. 3306, without their mark); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 2009.212.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
2009
Object Number
2009.212
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1979), vol. 9, cat. no. 2112ax, repr.
  • 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), cat. no. 41, pp. 120-21, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, 09/24/2011 - 01/08/2012; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 04/15/2012 - 07/08/2012

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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