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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1978.74
People
Maerten de Vos, Netherlandish (Antwerp, Belgium 1532 - 1603 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
Three Archangels
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1583
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296009

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash and white opaque watercolor over black chalk, incised, on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 19.5 x 29.6 cm (7 11/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, brown ink: M. D. VOS F. 1583
  • watermark: coat of arms with two fleur-de-lis and letter S, with MSAVOIS beneath [related to Briquet 1668]
  • label: former brown paper, blue ink: Martin de Vos [underlined] b. 1531 or 2; d. 1603. Painter + draughts- / man. Born at Antwerp. Pupil of his father + of Franz / Floris; visited Italy, probably in 1552. Pupil of Tintoretto / whose landscape backgrounds he is said to have painted. / Master of the Antwerp guild, 1558, dean 1572. D. at Antwerp. / Largely occupied in providing drawings for engravers. Large / numbers still exist. This drawing is signed + dated / Martin de Vos 1583. The outlines have been incised.
  • label: former label, typeface and black ink: [black ink] 1950 / [typeface] Smith College / Museum of Art / LOAN / [black ink] Mongan
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 6 [encircled] M. de Vos

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Agnes Mongan, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1978.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Agnes Mongan
Accession Year
1978
Object Number
1978.74
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 8, p. 2
  • Nicola Courtright, Northern Travelers to Sixteenth-Century Italy: Drawings from New England Collections, exh. cat., Trustees of Amherst College (Amherst, MA, 1990), cat. no. 11, p. 15

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954
  • Northern Renaissance Art: Selected Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/28/1984 - 04/08/1984

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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