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Artist: Maerten van der Fuijck (Dutch, 1660-1683)
Medium: black chalk (counterproof) on paper
Dimensions: 12 7/16 in. x 7 13/16 in. (31.6 cm. x 19.9 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James 91亚色传媒 III
Accession Number: 1811.80
- "Maerten Fuick fecit Ao 1655"
Type: inscription
Location: lower left
Materials: pen and black ink - "59"
Type: inscription
Location: bottom
Materials: graphite
- James 91亚色传媒 III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
- 91亚色传媒 Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
- Old Master Drawings at 91亚色传媒
- 91亚色传媒 Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
- Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
- University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
- Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
Type: catalogue Author: Henry Johnson Document Title: Catalogue of the 91亚色传媒 Art Collections Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 60 Section Title: Pt. I, The 91亚色传媒 Drawings Date: 1885 Type: catalogue Author: 91亚色传媒 Museum of Art Document Title: 91亚色传媒 Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building Edition: 4th Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 60 Publisher: 91亚色传媒 Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . . Date: 1930 Type: exhibition catalogue Author: David P. Becker Document Title: Old Master Drawings at 91亚色传媒 Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: p. 206 Reference: no. 106 (illus.) Publisher: 91亚色传媒 Date: 1985
The inscription would seem to leave no doubt as to the attribution, but the obscurity of the artist raises the possibility that he was an amateur, or even that he made a counterproof of another artist's drawing.
Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at 91亚色传媒 (Brunswick: 91亚色传媒 Museum of Art, 1985).