Soldiers Resting

between late 16th and early 17th century

Flemish, Artist Sebastian Vrancx, Artist

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About the Artwork

Title Soldiers Resting

Artwork Date between late 16th and early 17th century

Makers (Artist) Flemish Sebastian Vrancx (Artist) Flemish, 1573-1647

Medium Pen and brown ink and brown wash over a preliminary drawing in graphite on discolored laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 8 1/4 × 12 1/8 inches (21 × 30.8 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 71.43.B

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower right: Velvet Bruegle [cut off at bottom] Inscribed, on support, lower right: Valvet Brnatz | e | Velve[illegible] Brugel [ = Ian Brueghol 1] | [illegible] 12.11.98 Inscribed, on support, lower left: Stempel : CP nicht [illegible] | Handschrift: c

Marks Mark, black collectors mark, verso, lower left corner: [unidentified] Mark, black collectors mark on verso, lower left: E. Peart, London (Lugt. 891.)

Provenance

Unidentified collector. E. Peart (London, England)

Paul L. Grigaut (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)

1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, p. 136, no. A16 (ill.).

From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 10.

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Flemish; after Sebastian Vrancx, Soldiers Resting, between late 16th and early 17th century, pen and brown ink and brown wash over a preliminary drawing in graphite on discolored laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 71.43.B.