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Identification and Creation Object Number 25.1998.14 People Willem Pietersz. Buytewech, Dutch (Rotterdam, Netherlands 1591/92-1624 Rotterdam, Netherlands) Title A Standing Man, Hand on Hip Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1616-1617 Culture Dutch Physical Descriptions Medium Brown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper Dimensions 27.6 x 8.7 cm (10 7/8 x 3 7/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: lower right, graphite: 11 [underlined] watermark: Coat of arms surmounted by a helmet, 2 of 6
plumes, and horns [Unidentified] collector's mark: verso, lower center, blue ink stamp: L. 3306 (Maida and George Abrams) Provenance [Unidentified dealer or auction, Boston]; Donald W. Moreland, Cambridge, sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1987 (L. 3306, verso, lower center); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Promised Gift, 25.1998.14 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift Object Number 25.1998.14 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Publication History Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, "A Standing Cavalier by Willem Buytewech", Master Drawings (1966), vol. 4, no. 2, pp 155-157, pp. 155-57, repr. pl. 20 Willem Buytewech, exh. cat., Institut Néerlandais (Paris, 1974), cat. no. 58, pp. 49-50, repr. pl. 81 The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden 3 of 6
Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no. 2 Frima Fox Hofrichter, Haarlem: The Seventeenth Century, exh. cat., Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, NJ, 1983), cat. no. 19, p. 66, repr. Frederik J. Duparc, "[Review] Collectie Abrams in Rijksprentenkabinet", Tableau (1991), vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 40-42, pp. 41-42 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. 14, pp. 46-47, repr., under under cat. no. 13, p. 44 George S. Keyes, "[Review] Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings. A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection", Master Drawings (Winter 1992), vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 443-448, p. 445-46 Ger Luijten, ed., Dawn of the golden age: northern Netherlandish art, 1580-1620, exh. cat., Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and Waanders Uitgevers (Amsterdam and Zwolle, 1993), under cat. no. 294, p. 623 (n. 8) Anna Knaap, "From Lowlife to Rustic Idyll: The Peasant Genre in 17th-Century Dutch Drawings and Prints", exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 9, pp. 38 and 55, repr. p. 38, fig. 8 William W. Robinson, "Abrams Dutch Drawings Given to the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass.", Apollo (December 1999), vol. 150, pp. 14-16, p. 16 William W. Robinson, "Old Master and Nineteenth- Century Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University", Master Drawings (Fall 2000), vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 233-240, p. 238, repr. fig. 6 Seymour Slive, "Collecting 17th-century Dutch art in the 4 of 6
United States: the current boom", Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum (2001), vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 84-99, p. 97 (n. 11) William W. Robinson, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 41, pp. 108-109, 255, 273, repr. Michiel C. Plomp, "[Review] Bruegel to Rembrandt. Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection.", Oud Holland (2004), vol. 117, no. 1/2, pp. 99-102, p. 101 (n. 3) Annemarie Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850: Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gaßner, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, 2011), vol. 1, under cat. no. 185, p. 155, (n. 7) Exhibition History Willem Buytewech, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 01/24/1975-03/09/1975 The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980-01/04/1981 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, 5 of 6
10/10/1992-12/06/1992 From Lowlife to Rustic Idyll: The Peasant Genre in 17th- Century Dutch Drawings and Prints, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/29/1997-06/22/1997 Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, British Museum, London, 06/13/2002-09/22/2002; Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 10/10/2002-12/08/2002; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/22/2003-07/06/2003 Mirror of Holland: Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 11/20/2010-03/06/2011 Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2016-08/14/2016 This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Generated on August 26, 2016 at 07:31pm 6 of 6