DrawingsDutch17th century

Woman Doing Handwork; verso: Landscape [by a later hand]

c. 1655

Artists

Gerbrand van den EeckhoutArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: red chalk

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

17.9 x 14.6 cm (7 1/16 x 5 3/4 in.)

Provenance

H. van Cranenburgh, Amsterdam, sold; [Roos and De Vries, Amsterdam, 26 October 1858 and following days, port. I, lot 223]; to De Vries. Jacob de Vos Jacobszoon, Amsterdam (L. 1450, lower left), sold; [Van Dijk, Amsterdam, 22-24 May 1883, lot 163, erroneously citing lot 222 in the Cranenburgh sale]; to [Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau, London]. John Postle Heseltine, London (L. 1508, lower left), by 1929, sold; [Sotheby’s, London, 27-29 May 1935, lot 166]; to Frits Lugt, traded 1 January 1936; to Carl Robert Rudolf, London (L. 2811b, former mount), sold; via E. Jacobs to Maida and George Abrams, 1975 (L. 3306, verso, lower left), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020

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