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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.520
People
Philips Koninck, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1619 - 1688 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
A Biblical Scene
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1660
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/188640

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
17.6 x 20.9 cm (6 15/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Eagle with outspread wings with crown, similar to Churchill 438
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink, stamp: L. 1441 (Jules-Alexandre Duval le Camus)
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, brown ink, stamp: L. 873b (E. J. Otto)
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: No 3/ N. 3... [illegible, cut off]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: d / _/_ [or inverted T / E]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jules-Alexandre Duval Le Camus, Paris (L. 1441, lower right). Ernst Jurgen Otto, Celles, Germany (L. 873b, verso, lower right). [Alfred Brod Gallery, London.] E. Jacobs. Maida and George Abrams, Boston (L. 3306, without their mark); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 2011.520.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Dr. Judah Folkman, Harvard Medical School Class of 1957
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2011.520
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Franklin W. Robinson, Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., International Exhibitions Foundation (Washington, D.C, 1977), cat. no. 54, pp. 56-57, 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. 30, pp. 29, 98-99, repr.
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin, ed. Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes, University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, 2015), under cat. no. 61, p. 157 (n. 117)
  • William W. Robinson and Susan Anderson, Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2016), p. 20, repr. p. 21, fig. 11

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • 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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