2020.233: The Peasant Lighting his Pipe
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2020.233
- People
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Cornelis Bega, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1631/32 - 1664 Haarlem, Netherlands)
- Title
- The Peasant Lighting his Pipe
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 17th century
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/364049
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Etching on cream antique laid paper
- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
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image: 9 × 8 cm (3 9/16 × 3 1/8 in.)
plate: 11.3 × 8.9 cm (4 7/16 × 3 1/2 in.)
sheet: 12.1 × 9.7 cm (4 3/4 × 3 13/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower right, graphite: Bega
- inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: No 1759. 4to
- inscription: verso, center, graphite: MA115F
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 2/11 [encircled]
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: B No 20
- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: L. 2694
- collector's mark: verso, black ink, stamped three times: [oval stamp with blank coat-of-arms] [Lugt 2684, mark of an unidentified collector]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Unidentified collector (Lugt 2694). [Artemis Fine Arts, London], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1983, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Hollstein 20
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in honor of Peter van den Brink, Director of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen
- Accession Year
- 2020
- Object Number
- 2020.233
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- Cornelis Bega: Eleganz und raue Sitten, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Aachen, 03/15/2012 - 06/10/2012; Gemäldegalerie Berlin, 07/01/2012 - 10/02/2012
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