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Aulus Gellius Finishing "The Attic Nights"
ca. 1706
Jan Goeree
1670-1731
Dutch
Unknown
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, brush and gray ink, and red chalk on buff laid paper
Sheet: 8 3/8 × 6 5/8 inches (21.3 × 16.8 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR153
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Markings
Inscribed, lower left corner: [illegible] Inscribed, lower center, on plaque: Aulus Gellus | Noctes Attic [illegible]
Provenance
unidentified collector [collector's mark [L. 729] with pen and brown ink on verso at lower left]
S.D. Wahr
November 1867, Montmorrillon sale, no. 863 [as Gerard de Lairesse]
C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad)
1887, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, pp. 76-77, no. 28 (ill.).
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Jan Goeree, Aulus Gellius Finishing "The Attic Nights", ca. 1706, pen and brown ink and brown wash, brush and gray ink, and red chalk on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR153.
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