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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1959.52
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Illustration from the Old Testament
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Israelites Forced to Labor in Egypt
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296976

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown and gray wash and white opaque watercolor on blue antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk and brown ink
Dimensions
actual: 21.1 x 25.7 cm (8 5/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: 33
  • inscription: verso, lower center, brown ink, pen: EXODE . 1 .
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: gw
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jacob de Vos Jacobszoon, Amsterdam (L. 1450, without his mark). Pieter Langerhuizen, Amsterdam. [W. J. Jeudwine, London], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1959.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund and Arthur Sachs (through Friends of the Fogg)
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
1959.52
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, auct. cat. (Wilton Gallery, 18 April - 9 May 1956), no. 36 (as Dutch School c. 1550)
  • Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, auct. cat. (Alpine Club Gallery, 11-29 November 1958), no. 11
  • Nicole Dacos, "Peeter de Kempeneer / Pedro Campaña as a Draughtsman", Master Drawings (1987), vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 370, 372, note 25, repr. pl. 16 (as Peeter de Kempeneer)
  • Adela Espinós Díaz, "Another Drawing by Pedro de Campaña for his Old Testament Series", Master Drawings (1999), vol. 37, no. 4, p. 365
  • Old Master and 19th Century Drawings, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, NY, January 23, 2002), under lot no. 114, p. 152
  • Annemarie Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850: Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gaßner, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, 2011), vol. 1, p. 308, under cat. no. 499 (as Pieter de Kempener)

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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