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Identification and Creation Object Number 2009.207 People Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheyde, Dutch (Haarlem 1638-1698 Haarlem) Title Study of a Seated Woman Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1660-1662 Culture Dutch Physical Descriptions Medium Black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink, reinforced in black ink at top and left Dimensions 27.2 x 17.8 cm (10 11/16 x 7 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 55 watermark: LR 2 of 6
collector's mark: verso, lower left, blue ink stamp: L. 3306 (Maida and George Abrams) Provenance Mrs. N. J. van Lessen, Wassenaar, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 11 March 1964, lot 184 as Cornelis Bega]. [Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam]. J. A. van Dongen, Amsterdam, by 1968, sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1971, (L. 3306, verso, lower left); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 2009.207. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Accession Year 2009 Object Number 2009.207 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Publication History J. E. de Bruyn Kops, Schilderijen, tekeningen en beeldhouwwerken, 16e-20e eeuw, uit de verzameling van J. A. van Dongen, exh. cat. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1968), cat. no. 26, p. 13 (as Bega) 3 of 6
Tekeningen uit de Collectie Dr. J. A. van Dongen, exh. cat., Singer Museum (Laren, The Netherlands, 1971), cat. no. 15, n.p., as Cornelis Bega Franklin W. Robinson, ed., Things of this World: A Selection of Dutch Drawings from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, 1972), cat. no. 3, p. 21, repr. p. 34 as Bega Ebria Feinblatt, Old Master Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Allanheld & Schram (Los Angeles, 1976), cat. no. 200, p. 182, repr. fig. 200, as Cornelis Bega Peter Schatborn, Dutch Figure Drawings from the Seventeenth Century, exh. cat., Government Publishing Office (The Hague, Netherlands, 1981), under cat. no. 16, p. 130 Frima Fox Hofrichter, Haarlem: The Seventeenth Century, exh. cat., Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, NJ, 1983), cat. no. 8, p. 58, repr. Mary Ann Scott, "Cornelis Bega as Painter and Draughtsman" (1984), University Microfilms, vol. 1, cat. no. GB10, pp. 88-89, 137, and 432, repr. vol. 2, p. 541, figs. 125 and 126 (detail) William W. Robinson, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., H. O. Zimman, Inc. (Lynn, MA, 1991), cat. no. 94, pp. 10 and 206-7, repr. Bernard Aikema, Pieter van der Coelen, and Pieter Roelofs, Meesters op papier: Nederlandse tekeningen uit een particuliere collectie (17de - 19de eeuw), exh. cat., Museum Het Valkhof and Waanders Uitgevers (2002), p. 86 (n. 2), repr. fig. 2 Peter van den Brink and Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann, 4 of 6
Cornelis Bega: Eleganz und raue Sitten, exh. cat., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin, 2012), under cat. no. 36, p. 169 Exhibition History Schilderijen, tekeningen en beeldhouwwerken 16e-20e eeuw uit de verzameling Dr. J. A. van Dongen, Museum Willet Holthuysen, Amsterdam, 04/25/1968-06/16/1968 Tekeningen uit de Collectie Dr. J. A. van Dongen, Singer Museum, Laren, 02/27/1971-04/12/1971 Things of this World: A Selection of Dutch Drawings from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 10/31/1972-02/25/1973 Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 04/29/1976-06/13/1976 Haarlem: The Seventeenth Century, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, 02/20/1983-04/17/1983 Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 02/23/1991-04/18/1991; Albertina Gallery, Vienna, 05/16/1991-06/30/1991; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 01/22/1992-04/22/1992; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/10/1992-12/06/1992 Abrams 50th reunion exhibition, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/2004-06/14/2004 5 of 6
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