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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.84
People
Margareta de Heer, Dutch (Leeuwarden c. 1603 - between 1659-65 Leeuwarden)
Title
A Cockerel, a Chicken, and a Sleeping Dog in a Farmyard
Other Titles
Former Title: Landscape with Animals
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/212323

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on parchment, mounted down
Dimensions
28.8 × 24.3 cm (11 5/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: Margareta. D Heer / Fecit

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Sotheby's, Amsterdam, November 18, 1985, lot 147] sold; to Jacobus A. Klaver, The Netherlands, sold [through his sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, May 10, 1994, lot 105]; to Maida and George Abrams

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 Nancy Palais Levin, Radcliffe Class of 1956
Accession Year
2024
Object Number
2024.84
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Dutch, Flemish and German Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, Amsterdam (Amsterdam, November 18, 1985), lot 147, repr. p. 105
  • Marijn Schapelhouman and Peter Schatborn, Tekeningen van Oude Meesters: De Verzameling Jacobus A. Klaver, exh. cat., Waanders Uitgevers (Zwolle, 1993), cat. no. 58, repr.
  • The Jacobus A. Klaver Collection of Dutch Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, Amsterdam (Amsterdam, May 10, 1994), lot 105, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Tekeningen van Oude Meesters: De Verzameling Jacobus A. Klaver, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, 05/08/1993 - 07/25/1993

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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