Museum of Art
Artist: Isaac Major (Attributed to) (Flemish, 1588-after 1642)
Medium: brush and blue ink over black chalk on paper
Dimensions: 9 3/8 in. x 14 3/8 in. (23.81 cm. x 36.51 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.87
- "140"
Type: inscription
Location: upper right
Materials: pen and brown ink - serpent with initials MH
Type: watermark
Location:
Materials:
- James Bowdoin III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
- Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
- Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
- University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
- Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
Type: catalogue Author: Henry Johnson Document Title: Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 115 Remarks: (as Unknown) Section Title: Pt. I, The Bowdoin Drawings Date: 1885 Type: catalogue Author: Bowdoin College Museum of Art Document Title: Bowdoin Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building Edition: 4th Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 115 Remarks: (as Unknown) Publisher: Bowdoin College Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . . Date: 1930 Author: [H. C. Siber] Document Title: Connoisseur, vol. 120, no. 506 Location: pp. 119-120 Reference: repr. fig. 10 Remarks: (as Flemish, 16th-17th century) Section Title: "James Bowdoin and His Collection of Drawings with Notes . . ." Date: 1947 Type: exhibition catalogue Author: David P. Becker Document Title: Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: p. 207 Reference: no. 108 (illus.) Publisher: Bowdoin College Date: 1985
Closely related to drawings at Yale (Inv. no. 1961.62.62, repr. Princeton-Washington 1982-1983, cat. no. 66) and the Metropolitan Museum (Inv. no. 66.93.5). Attribution is by Spicer (see Princeton-Washington 1982-1983, under cat. nos. 66—67). Previously these drawings had been placed in the Savery school. See BCMA 1811.128 for a related sheet.
Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College (Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985).