DrawingsDutch17th century

Old Man Saying Grace before a Meal

17th century

Artists

Petrus StaverenusArtist

Description

This sheet forms part of a seventeenth-century Dutch album, in its original binding, which contains 41 small, full-page drawings on parchment by more than 27 different artists.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on parchment

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

15.2 × 11 cm (6 × 4 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Possibly Pieter Spiering, Delft and The Hague. Private collection, United Kingdom, sold [private sale, via Sotheby's, London]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1987 (Lugt 3306, without their mark), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 1999

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