DrawingsDutch16th-17th century

The Punishment for Adultery (Study for the Illustration in Jacob Cats's "Self-Stryt, " 1628)

1620-1628

Artists

Adriaen van de VenneArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown and black ink, gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over graphite, incised, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in black ink over brown ink

Culture

Dutch

Century

16th-17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

6.4 x 8.6 cm (2 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.) mount: 15.4 x 18 cm (6 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Van den Brande collection, Middelburg; by descent to E. C. Baron van Pallandt (1), his sale; [Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 26 September 1972, lot 375] to; Maida and George Abrams, Boston, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1983 (1) It is not clear whether Pieter van den Brande (167?-1718) and/or his son, Johan Pieter van den Brande I (1707-1758) formed the collection that descended to Baron van Pallandt (sale 1972). See Charles Dumas and Robert-Jan te Rijdt, "Kleur en Raffinement: Tekeningen uit de unicorno collective," Zwolle, 1994, pp. 90-91.