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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2013.44
People
Jan Lievens, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1607 - 1674 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Portrait of an Old Man
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Robert Smith
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1632-1635
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232910

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 28.6 x 21.3 cm (11 1/4 x 8 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower margin, brown ink over graphite: Robert Smith aged 112.; brown ink: 1670.
  • inscription: verso, brown ink: P. Mariette 1670 / [three dots in brown ink in an inverted triangle] [Mariette inscription and the triangle are circled together in graphite] [Lugt 1790]
  • watermark: fool's cap
  • inscription: verso, graphite: --from Mariette collection-- / Robert Smith Anglois agé a 112 ans / (?)-5
  • inscription: verso, brown ink, lower left: N9226 [Lugt 2986]; lower right: 7.
  • collector's mark: Cohn collector's stamp, inscribed "92" [acquired in 1992].

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Pierre Mariette (1644-1760) [Lugt 1790], 1670 [inscription on verso] possibly sold [through Vente Mariette, 1775-1776, no. 523]; to Joullain. Robert Strange (1721-1792), Paris. Joseph Gulston (1745-1786). Private collection, England. Edward Hodgson. [Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara] sold; to Marjorie B. Cohn, 1992, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2013

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/iii
Standard Reference Number
Hollstein 28; Schneider & Ekkart 75a

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn in honor of Zoya and Seymour Slive
Accession Year
2013
Object Number
2013.44
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Joseph Koerner and Michael Zell, Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), p. 16 (checklist)

Exhibition History

  • Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/30/1999 - 01/23/2000
  • 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/01/2014 - 04/09/2015

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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