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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.560
People
Jan Speckaert, Netherlandish (d. 1577)
Title
Discovery of the Murdered Sisera
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298892

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and brown ink and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
Dimensions
actual: 20.1 x 27.6 cm (7 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: coat of arms with grapes (?) on a pedestal wtih MM (top, flanking) and A below [German, mid-late 15th century]
  • inscription: former mount, graphite: no mark Pen drawing from the collection of Ferdinand Ebner of Augsbourg / Judith in A Bloemaert's style
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, purple ink stamp and brown ink: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 539. (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ferdinand Ebner, Augsbourg, to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA; bequest to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892; gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1892.

NOTE: Ebner's ownership is taken from an inscription in the hand of John Witt Randall taken from Randall's mount.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.560
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Fiamminghi a Roma 1508-1608. Artistes des Pays-Bas et de la Principaute de Liege a Rome a la Renaissance, exh. cat., Societe des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles and Snoeck Decajou & Zoon (Brussels, 1995), p. 327 under cat. no. 184

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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