1999.156: A Peasant Couple

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1999.156

People

Philips Koninck, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1619 - 1688 Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Title

A Peasant Couple

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1661-1662

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/212408

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down at corners to cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

9.9 x 13.1 cm (3 7/8 x 5 3/16 in.)
mount: 24.9 x 16.6 cm (9 13/16 x 6 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: none
• collector's mark: mount, verso, lower left: L. 3306 (Maida and George Abrams)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Jane Cleaver (Mrs. Robert Bell Livesey), by 1789, by descent; to .Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Peters Turton. Mr. and Mrs. Multon and Marianne Lambarde, Beechmont, Kent, by 1848, by descent; to A.C.M.B. Scott, by 1896, sale; [Christie's, London, 10 July 1973; lot 12], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (L. 3306, mount, verso, lower left); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.156..

NOTE: This drawing was preserved in an album that was made in the late seventeenth century, originally containing 164 drawings. The title page of the album read, "Verscheyde studies van Berchem, Potter, V. d. Velde, Ostade, Backhuysen, Jardyn, Schellings, Snyders, Bamboots, de Gyn, Koning &c. &c."

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Accession Year

1999

Object Number

1999.156

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1979), vol. 6, cat. no. 1470x
• 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. 49, pp. 116-7, repr.
• Peter C. Sutton and William W. Robinson, Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Bruce Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2011), cat. no. 31, pp. 100-101, repr.
• Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin, ed. Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes, University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, 2015), under cat. no. 61, p. 157 (n. 120)

Exhibition History

• 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
• Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, 09/24/2011 - 01/08/2012; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 04/15/2012 - 07/08/2012

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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