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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.37
People
Willem van Mieris, Dutch (Leiden, Nethelands 1662 - 1747 Leiden, Netherlands)
Title
Susannah and the Elders
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1691
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/354736

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor, heightened with gold, on parchment
Dimensions
13.6 × 10.7 cm (5 3/8 × 4 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink: W. R. Mieris. F. 1691

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jonas Witsen, Amsterdam, sold [through his sale, Amsterdam, August 16, 1790, kunstboek D, no. 6]. Jan de Groot, Amsterdam, sold [through his sale, Amsterdam, December 10, 1804, kunstboek E, no. 19]; to Adriaan van Harssevoort, sold [through his sale, Rotterdam, November 4, 1817, kunstboek A, no. 46]. Gustav von Gerhardt, Budapest, sold [through his sale, Part I, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, November 9, 1911, lot 358]. Sydney J. Lamon (1897-1973), New York, sold [through Christie's, London, November 26, 1973, lot 318]; to H. R. Bijl, The Hague, sold [through Sotheby's, Amsterdam, November 17, 1993, lot 2]; to Bernard Palitz, by descent; to his son, sold [through Sotheby's, New York, Old Master Drawings, January 28, 2016, lot 240]; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund, through the generosity of Walter and Virgilia Klein, and Agnes Mongan Purchase Fund
Accession Year
2016
Object Number
2016.37
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogus van een fraay kabinet schilderyen, beneevens een uitmuntende collectie gecouleurde en ongecouleurde teekeningen : beide door de beroemdste Neederlandsche meesters...by wylen den wel edele gestrenge Heer Jonas Witsen, auct. cat. (Amsterdam, August 16 1790), p. 97, no. 6
  • Catalogues van een fraaije verzameling utmuntende childerijen, teekeningen en prenten. Bijeen verzameld door wijlen en Wel Edelen Heere Adriaan Harssevoort., auct. cat. (Rotterdam, November 4, 1817), p. 5, no. 46
  • Sammlung Gustav von Gerhardt, Budapest, Erster Teil: Kunstgenerbe, auct. cat. (Berlin, November 9, 1911), pp. 59, 63, repr. table 54
  • Important Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, Nov. 26-27, 1973), pp. 94-95, lot 318, repr. p. 95
  • Jaap Bolten, Old Master Drawings from Print Room of the University Leiden, exh. cat., Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (The Hague / Amsterdam, 1987), p. 178, under cat. no. 65, note 7
  • Old Master Drawings: Dutch, Flemish and German Drawings, including the H. R. Bijl Collection, auct. cat., Sotheby's, Amsterdam (Amsterdam, November 17 1993), p. 10, lot 2, repr.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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