1969.145: Genre Scene with Horsemen and Women Carrying Bundles

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1969.145

People

Gillis Neyts, Flemish (Ghent, Belgium 1623 - 1687 Antwerp, Belgium)

Title

Genre Scene with Horsemen and Women Carrying Bundles

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296164

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, transparent watercolor, and white opaque watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, mounted; verso of drawing: star and flourishes in brown ink?

Dimensions

11.5 × 22.6 cm (4 1/2 × 8 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower left, graphite: Nyts
• collector's mark: lower center, black ink, stamp: L. 474 (Probably Comte de Caylus, formerly pseudo-Crozat)
• inscription: lower right, brown ink: /Callot/
• inscription: lower center, brown ink: + / 10
• inscription: mount, verso, right edge, brown ink: 3DL7.
• inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite: 45
• inscription: mount, verso, lower left, graphite: Neyts

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Probably Comte de Caylus, Paris (L. 474, with his mark). Mrs. William D. Vogel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift

Accession Year

1969

Object Number

1969.145

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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