Harvard Art Museums > 1999.153: A Duck Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"A Duck (Pieter Holsteyn II) , 1999.153,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/191993. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1999.153 People Pieter Holsteyn II, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1614 - 1673 Haarlem, Netherlands) Title A Duck Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 17th century Places Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands Culture Dutch Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/191993 Physical Descriptions Medium Transparent watercolor, with application of gum, and opaque watercolor over traces of black chalk on cream antqiue laid paper Dimensions 15.5 x 20 cm (6 1/8 x 7 7/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: Lower left, gray ink: PH fe. watermark: crown fragment [see Van Hasselt, Landschaptekening van hollandse meesters uit de XVIIe eeuw, 1968-9, cat. no. 113, p. 186] inscription: verso, upper left, brown ink: 64 inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: P inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: Kt 137 inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: D Cox inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 52 inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: kaep gans Provenance Recorded Ownership History [Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1965], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1965; The Maida and George Abrams Colleciton, 1999.153. NOTE: Abrams is not listed as the buyer for any of the lots. Many Holsteyn birds are in this sale, and none clearly matches ours. The numbers inscribed on the verso of each drawing match the numbers litsed in the catalogue, but our drawing does not match any of them. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Accession Year 1999 Object Number 1999.153 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, Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, MA, 1969), cat. 37, p. vii, repr. Exhibition History Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, 03/27/1969 - 04/28/1969; Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, 05/04/1969 - 06/04/1969; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 09/17/1969 - 10/12/1969; University of Connecticut Museum of Art, Storrs, 10/18/1969 - 11/16/1969 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
