About the Artwork
Fragment of an Unidentified Sketch
ca. 1650
Peter Lely
1618-1680
English
Unknown
Black and red chalk, heightened with black chalk on tan laid paper with four deckle edges and fibrous inclusions
Sheet: 12 5/8 × 8 3/8 inches (32.1 × 21.3 cm)
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Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
34.116.B
This work is in the public domain.
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Inscribed, in pencil, upper center, verso: 57 (in circle)
Provenance
Peter Lely (London, England)
Edward Speelman (London, England)
[as Sketch for Portrait Group by Anthony van Dyck] 1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Peter Lely, Fragment of an Unidentified Sketch, ca. 1650, black and red chalk, heightened with black chalk on tan laid paper with four deckle edges and fibrous inclusions. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.116.B.
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