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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.639
People
Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1635 - 1681 Leiden, Netherlands)
Title
Card Players
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/191449

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on vellum
Dimensions
19.3 x 14.8 cm (7 5/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, black ink: F. van. Mieris
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: FF: N4 / fhno
  • inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink, by Johan Goll van Franckenstein: N3887
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: F van mieris / de oude / hoog 4 1/2 / breet 5 3/4
  • inscription: verso, center left, graphite: 66/260

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hendrick de Leth, Amsterdam, sold [through his sale, Amsterdam, September 30, 1766, lot 71]. Allard de la Court, Leiden, sold [through sale April 23, 1767, Kunstboek A, no. 1]. Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Amsterdam, sold [through his sale, Van der Schley, De Bosch, Yver, and Roos, Amsterdam, March 3, 1800, Kunstboek DD, no. 2]; to Jonckheer Johan Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam (Lugt 2987) by descent; to Pieter Hendrick Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam, sold [De Vries, Roos, Amsterdam, July 1, 1833, Kunstboek I, no. 2]. [Christie's, June 23, 1970, lot 89]; to the father of the consigner. [Sotheby's, New York, January 29, 1997, lot 50], sold [via Otto Naumann]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in appreciation of Otto Naumann
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.639
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Collection d'imitations de dessins d'après les principaux maîtres hollandais et flamands, Attribution commencée par Ploos van Amstel . . ., Christian Josi (Amsterdam and London, 1821), no. 31
  • Alfred von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, Halm und Goldmann (Vienna and Leipzig, 1906-1911), vol. 2, p. 334, no. 26
  • Otto Naumann, "Frans van Mieris as a Draughtsman", Master Drawings (June 1978), XVI, no. 1, pp. 3-34, pp. 9-11, no. 23, pl. 12
  • Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Mary Tavener Holmes, Fritz Koreny, Donald Posner, and Duncan Robinson, The Robert Lehman Collection VII: Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Drawings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University Press (New York and Princeton, 1999), p. 278-279
  • William W. Robinson, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 92, repr.
  • Michiel C. Plomp, "[Review] Bruegel to Rembrandt. Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection.", Oud Holland (2004), vol. 117, no. 1/2, pp. 99-102, p. 100

Exhibition History

  • Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, British Museum, London, 06/13/2002 - 09/22/2002; Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 10/10/2002 - 12/08/2002; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/22/2003 - 07/06/2003
  • Drawn to Daily Life: Dutch Genre Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 03/08/2014 - 09/06/2014

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