1970.109: Allegory on the Art of Drawing with the Emblem of the Artist

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1970.109

People

Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch (Mühlbracht 1558 - 1617 Haarlem, Netherlands)

Title

Allegory on the Art of Drawing with the Emblem of the Artist

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Allegorical Composition of the Artist's Motto: "Eer Boven Golt"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1612

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295714

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, red and black chalk and white opaque watercolor on cream antique laid paper prepared with thin white ground, partial framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

16.7 x 12.3 cm (6 9/16 x 4 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: lower center, brown ink: Ao HG [in ligature] 1612.
• label: former label, black typeface: INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS FOUNDATION / "Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from / American Collections" / 2. Hendrick Goltzius / An Allegorical Composition of the [underlined] / Artist's Motto: 'Eer boven Golt' [underlined] / Fogg Art Museum / Harvard University
• exhibition label: former label, black typeface: THE / DENVER / ART / MUSEUM / No. SE.1977.6.2 / Artist Hendrick Goltzius / Title "An Allegorical composition / of the Artist's Motto: Eer /Date Boven Golt" 1612 / Medium Pen, ink over chalk / Dimensions 16 1/4" x 12 3/4 " / Credit Line Fogg Art Museum
• blind stamp: lower right: L. 1391 (Heinrich Wilhelm Campe)
• inscription: verso, lower center, brown ink: i. II. [illegible] [possibly offset from another sheet]
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: No 82 / S [or L?] Pu / H. Golzius.
• collector's mark: verso, lower left, brown ink, stamp: L. 2007d (unidentified)
• (not assigned): Obscured under ink and lead white (?) band at top center, recto, probably in brown ink: Eer Boven Golt
  
  Visible in VSC in paper lab
  
  Translation: Honor Above Gold

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Possibly Dirk Versteegh, Amsterdam, sold; [De Vries, Brondgeest, Engelberts, Roos, 3 November 1823, portfolio 3G lot 1]; to Albertus Brondgeest, Amsterdam. Heinrich Wilhelm Campe, Leipzig (L. 1391 with his mark), sold; [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, Lagerliste XXXVII, 1918, no. 80]; to Curt Otto, Leipzig (L. 611c with his mark), sold; [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 7 November 1929, lot 62]; to Stern of Frankfurt. [Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 12 May 1960, lot 40]. Private Collection, US, sold; [Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. New York, 22 October 1970, lot 30]; [through Robert M. Light & Co., Inc.]; to Private Collector, Paris; gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1970.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift in memory of Henry and Margaret Rudkin

Accession Year

1970

Object Number

1970.109

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen, B. Tauchnitz (Leipzig, Germany, 1922), p. 8, repr. pl. 7
• Emil Karel Josef Reznicek, Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius, Haentjens Dekker & Gumbert (Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1961), cat. no. K 198, pp. 316-317, repr. fig. 439
• Robert W. Scheller, "Rembrandt en de encyclopedische Kunstkamer", Oud Holland (1969), vol. LXXXIV, pp. 81-147, p. 100, repr. fig. 27
• Vassar College Art Gallery, Dutch Mannerism: Apogee and Epilogue, exh. cat., Vassar College Art Gallery (Poughkeepsie, NY, 1970), under cat. no. 54, p. 44
• Franklin W. Robinson, Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., International Exhibitions Foundation (Washington, D.C, 1977), cat. no. 2, pp. xiv and 3-5, repr.
• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 46, n.p., repr.
• [Reproduction only], "Calendar", Harvard University Gazette, (December 12, 1980)., repr. p. 9
• The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no. 29
• Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America, Netherlands-American Amity Trust and Eerdmans (Washington, D.C. and Grand Rapids, MI, 1986), pp. 38-39
• Emil Karel Josef Reznicek, "Drawings by Hendrick Goltzius, Thirty Years Later: Supplement to the 1961...", Master Drawings (Autumn 1993), vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 215-278, cat. no. A 439, p. 278
• Seymour Slive, "Collecting 17th-century Dutch art in the United States: the current boom", Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum (2001), vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 84-99, pp. 91, 98 (n. 19)
• Huigen Leeflang and Ger Luijten, Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings, exh. cat., Waanders Uitgevers (Zwolle, 2003), cat. no. 5, pp. 27-28, repr.
• Larry Silver, Goltzius, Honor, and Gold, Habitus: Norm und Transgression in Bild und Text, Akademie Verlag (Berlin, 2011), pp. 315-330, p. 329, repr. fig. 10, pl. x
• Lawrence Nichols, The Paintings of Hendrick Goltzius, 1558-1617: A Monograph and Catalogue Raisonné, Davaco Publishers (Doornspijk, 2013), pp. 43-44, repr. fig. 23

Exhibition History

• Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 01/30/1977 - 03/13/1977; Denver Art Museum, Denver, 04/01/1977 - 05/15/1977; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 06/01/1977 - 07/15/1977
• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
• The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/04/1981
• Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints and Paintings, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 03/07/2003 - 05/25/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 06/23/2003 - 09/07/2003

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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