Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me

ca. 1621

Joachim Wtewael Netherlandish, 1566-1638

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Title Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me

Artwork Date ca. 1621

Artist Joachim Wtewael

Life Dates 1566-1638

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Netherlandish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Red chalk over a preliminary drawing in black chalk, heightened with white, on discolored buff laid paper with a gray prepared ground

Dimensions Sheet: 10 7/8 × 14 1/2 inches (27.6 × 36.8 cm) Framed: 22 3/8 × 27 3/8 × 1 inches (56.8 × 69.5 × 2.5 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith 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. 59.4

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Signed Signed, verso, lower right: Joachim Wijtenwael

Inscriptions Inscribed with pen and brown ink, verso, lower left: A Blommaart [A and B in monogram]; verso, lower left: N° 1134 [crossed out]; verso, lower center: 3234; verso, lower right: 3234 [crossed out]; verso, lower right: Joachim Wijtenwael; in pen and brown ink, verso, lower right: indecipherable

Marks Watermark: Eagle with crozier of Basel [cf. Labarre 256]

Provenance

Sir Thomas Lawrence [1769-1830] (London, England)

(R.E. Lewis, San Francisco, California, USA)

1969-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Lindeman, C. M. A. A. Joachim Anthonisz. Wtewael. Utrecht, 1929, p. 64, pl. XVII

Logan, Anne-Marie. "Review of Exhibition Catalogue 'Dutch Mannerism. Apogee and Epilogue.' " Master Drawings 9, no. 3 (1971): 276-280

Lowenthal, Anne Walter. Joachim Wtewael and Dutch Mannerism. Doornspijk, 1986, under no. A 85, pl. 118

Logan, A. M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, no. 25, pp. 68-69 (ill.).

Pleasure and Piety: The Art of Joachim Wtewael (1566-1638). Exh. cat., Centraal Musuem Utrecht. Washington, DC, 2015, p. 50, 189.

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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Joachim Wtewael, Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me, ca. 1621, red chalk over a preliminary drawing in black chalk, heightened with white, on discolored buff laid paper with a gray prepared ground. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund, 59.4.