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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1983.140
People
Paulus van Vianen, Dutch (Utrecht 1570 - 1613 Prague)
Title
Five Sketches of Jews in the Synagogue; verso: Seven Sketches of Jews including One Woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1604-1607
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294849

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in black ink; verso: graphite and brown wash
Dimensions
25.7 x 17 cm (10 1/8 x 6 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: 32a
  • inscription: lower right, graphite, erased: 37
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: lower right, black chalk or graphite: J vd U...ft

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Adolf Friedrich Albert Reinicke, Neustrelitz, by descent; to Martin Reinicke, Darmstadt, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1983, part of no. 247], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1983.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund
Accession Year
1983
Object Number
1983.140
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Joaneath Spicer, "The Star of David and Jewish Culture in Prague around 1600, Reflected in Drawings of Roelandt Savery and Paulus van Vianen", The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, MD, 1996), vol. LIV, pp. 203-209, p. 217, nos. 8-9, figs. 12-13 (recto and verso)
  • Alexandr Putík, Path of Life: Rabbi Judah Loew Ben Bezalel ca. 1525....1609, exh. cat., Academia (Prague, 2009), pp. 247, 262 (n. 46), 265, and 501, repr. pp. 264 and 246 (detail)

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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