1999.123.49: Blank page; verso: Vanitas Still Life with Armor
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1999.123.49
- People
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Willem van Aelst, Dutch (Delft, Netherlands 1627 - after 1683 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Title
- Blank page; verso: Vanitas Still Life with Armor
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- album page, drawing
- Date
- 17th century
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/188935
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black chalk on parchment
- Dimensions
- 11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Verso, lower left, black chalk: .W.VA[in ligature]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Possibly Pieter Spiering, Delft and The Hague. Private collection, United Kingdom, sold [private sale, via Sotheby's, London]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1987 (Lugt 3306, without their mark), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 1999
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- 1999.123.49
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- This sheet forms part of a seventeenth-century Dutch album, in its original binding, which contains 41 small, full-page drawings on parchment by more than 27 different artists.
Publication History
- Walter Liedtke and Michiel C. Plomp, Vermeer and the Delft School, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2001), p. 186, fig. 203
- James Clifton and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst, exh. cat., Skira Rizzoli (New York, 2012), pp. 170-171, cat. no. 29, repr.
- William W. Robinson, "The Abrams Album: An 'Album Amicorum' of Dutch Drawings from the Seventeeth Century", Master Drawings (Spring 2015), LIII, no. 1, pp. 3-58, pp. 20, 38, 50-51, repr. front cover
- Giovanna Sapori, L'album amicorum come libro di disegni. Alcuni esempi tra Cinquecento e Seicento (Venius, Ortelius, Abrams, Heyblocq), Libri e album di disegni 1550-1800: Nuove prospettive metodologiche e di esegesi storico-critica (Rome, 2018), p. 110, illus. p. 106, fig. 13
Exhibition History
- Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst, National Gallery of Art, 06/24/2012 - 10/14/2012
Subjects and Contexts
- Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
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Verification Level
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