2023.631: Five Peasants in an Interior

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2023.631

People

Cornelis Dusart, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1660 - 1704 Haarlem, Netherlands)

Title

Five Peasants in an Interior

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1690

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/211339

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink, brown and gray wash and watercolor, over black chalk on parchment

Dimensions

25.4 x 30 cm (10 x 11 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: lower right, black ink: Corn: dusart. fe. 1690
• inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink: XXVII / 28
• watermark: None
• inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink: N2870
• collector's mark: lower right, black ink stamp: BY [encircled; Alfred Beurdeley, Lugt 421]
• collector's mark: lower right, black ink stamp: W surmounted by a crown [Earl of Warwick; Lugt 2600]
• collector's mark: verso, lower left, black ink stamp: CG [encircled; Sir Charles Greville; Lugt 549]
• collector's mark: verso, center, blue ink stamp: MGA [Maida and George Abrams; Lugt 3306]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Valerius Röver, Delft (Lugt 2984a-c), his estate inventory (Röver 1739). [1] Johan Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam (Lugt 2987). Sir Charles Francis Greville (Lugt 549), England. Earl of Warwick, Warwick Castle (Lugt 2600), sold [through his sale, Christie's, London, May 20, 1896, lot 114]. Harry Quilter, sold [through his sale, Christie's, London, April 7 & 9, 1906, lot 62]; to [Colnaghi]. Alfred Beurdeley, Paris (Lugt 421), sold [through his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 8-10, 1920, lot 118]; to Catroux. [Drouot, Paris, commissaires-priseurs Lenormand & Dayen, May 27, 1987, lot 99]. [Bruno de Bayser, Paris], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1989, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Notes

[1] In the Röver estate inventory in 1739, p. 65, Prt. 26, no. 38

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 Paul R. Corcoran, Harvard College '54

Accession Year

2023

Object Number

2023.631

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

• Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections parisiennes, exh. cat., Musée Carnavalet (Paris, 1950), no. 103
• Importants tableaux, dessins et sculptures anciens et modernes; Ancienne collection Beurdeley et à divers amateurs, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, May 27, 1987), lot 99, repr.
• William W. Robinson, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., H. O. Zimman, Inc. (Lynn, MA, 1991), cat. no. 98, pp. 214-215, repr.
• Anna Knaap, "From Lowlife to Rustic Idyll: The Peasant Genre in 17th-Century Dutch Drawings and Prints", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1996), vol. IV, no. 2, pp. 31-59, cat. no. 11, p. 56

Exhibition History

• Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections parisiennes, Musée Carnavalet, 11/01/1950 - 12/31/1950
• Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 02/23/1991 - 04/18/1991; Albertina Gallery, Vienna, 05/16/1991 - 06/30/1991; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 01/22/1992 - 04/22/1992; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/10/1992 - 12/06/1992
• From Lowlife to Rustic Idyll: The Peasant Genre in 17th-Century Dutch Drawings and Prints, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/29/1997 - 06/22/1997
• 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

Verification Level