About the Artwork
Woman Carrying a Basket
17th century
Cornelis Bega
1631 or 1632 - 1664
Dutch
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 4 3/4 × 3 inches (12.1 × 7.6 cm) Sheet: 4 7/8 × 3 1/8 inches (12.4 × 7.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S112
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower left: C bega
Inscribed, in brown ink, verso: F. Gawet 1808 (Lugt 1069) Inscribed, in both pencil and ink, verso: [notations]
Stamp, verso: Scripps 1885 [added in ink to the stamp] (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)]
Provenance
Franz Gawet
January 1885, H. Wunderlich & Co. 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Cornelis Bega, Woman Carrying a Basket, 17th century, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S112.
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