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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.285
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Raising of Lazarus
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299724

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash, squared in red and bluish chalk, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in red chalk and gray ink, attached to mount at three corners
Dimensions
13.3 x 17.7 cm (5 1/4 x 6 15/16 in.)
mount: 17.4 x 21.6 cm (6 7/8 x 8 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower center, purple ink stamp and brown ink: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 546. (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College)
  • inscription: mat, lower center, graphite: 17. cent. (?)
  • inscription: mat, lower right, graphite: 546 / 551. [crossed out]
  • inscription: former mat, lower left: Christ preaching / John Van Orley. inv et del. / From Warrens col / Lond in in Amsterdam col / See Gr. Pensionary Col / no 501 [the line beginning with "Lond" has been written over a previous, erased inscription, now illegible]
  • inscription: mount, lower right, under drawing, brown ink: Orley
  • watermark: foolscap
  • collector's mark: verso, upper right, red ink, stamp: [not easily accessible through mount]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Unidentified collector, with his mark. Grand Pensionary, Leiden(?). Private collection, Amsterdam, sold; to J. Warren, London. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA; bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.285
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William W. Robinson, "John Witt Randall: An Early American Collector of Later German Drawings", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2001), vol. 39, no. 2, Summer, pp. 159-168, note 32, p. 168

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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