DrawingsDutch17th century

Portrait of a Man

1603

Artists

Jacob MathamArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink over black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, mounted on antique laid paper; verso: traces of black chalk

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

27 × 20.6 cm (10 5/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

Provenance

[Bernard Houthakker Gallery, Amsterdam], sold; to Siegfried Kramarsky, circa 1930s, New York, by descent; to his wife Lola Kramarsky, New York, 1961, sold; [Art and Antique Auction and Sale in Aid of Youth Aliyah and Fellowship in Israel for Arab-Jewish Youth, Hotel Continental, Cambridge, MA, 7 November 1965, lot 40], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1965 (L. 3306, verso, lower right), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020

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