1.2018.27: Dilapidated Cottage with Sleeping Peasant and Three Women Spinning

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1.2018.27

People

Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch (Gorinchem, Netherlands 1566 - 1651 Utrecht, Netherlands)

Title

Dilapidated Cottage with Sleeping Peasant and Three Women Spinning

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/360605

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk, brown wash, green and rose transparent watercolor, and opaque white watercolor (now darkened) on off-white antique laid paper; framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

22.2 × 31.1 cm (8 3/4 × 12 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower left, brown ink: 1650
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 1N5
• watermark: right side of sheet: fragment of a Strasbourg Lily
• collector's mark: recto, lower left, blue ink: VV [intertwined and encircled] [not in Lugt]
• collector's mark: lower right of old mat, blind stamp: ARD [Lugt 172, unidentified collector]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Unidentified collector (Lugt 172). Sold [possibly through Theo Laurentis]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, by 1985

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift

Accession Year

2018

Object Number

1.2018.27

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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