Design for a Title Page

Abraham Jansz. van Diepenbeeck . Flanders. 1640-1675. pen and brown ink and black chalk heightened with white on two sheets paper . Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 1811.135.

Marks/Inscriptions

• "T GEBRVYCK / GHEEFT SEDEN / AEN WET / EN REDEN" (inscription, on plaque held by putti, top center in composition, pen and brown ink)
• "DVYSTER EN SWAER WORD LICHT EN CLAER" (inscription, on ribbon center left in composition, pen and brown ink)
• "RAVWE / WET" (inscription, on tablet held by figure at left in composition, pen and brown ink)
• "SPITS RECHT" (inscription, on ribbon center right in composition, pen and brown ink)
• "T'GEBRVYCK / BESET / EN RECHT EN WET" (inscription, on pedestal bottom in composition, pen and brown ink)
• "C No. 22/Diepenbeeck/2" (inscription, verso, pen and brown ink)

Provenance

• James Bowdoin III (Collector, Boston) -1811
• Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811-

Exhibition History

• Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College. Bowdoin College (5/3/2017, 9/3/2017)
• Old Master Drawings from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Timken Museum of Art (5/13/2005, 8/14/2005)
• Drawing on Basics. Bowdoin College (10/14/1993, 12/19/1993)
• Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College. David P. Becker, Class of 1970 (5/17/1985, 6/29/1986)

Bibliography

Type: catalogue
Author: Henry Johnson
Document Title: Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: 95
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
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: 95
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . .
Date: 1930

Type: Ph.D. diss.
Author: D. Steadman
Document Title: Abraham van Diepenbeeck
Publ. Place: Princeton
Location: vol. I, p. 78
Reference: vol. 2, pl. 173
Remarks: (as van Diepenbeeck)
Publisher: Princeton University
Section Title: 17th Century Flemish Painter
Date: 1973

Type: exhibition catalogue
Author: David P. Becker
Document Title: Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Location: pp. 46-47, 49
Reference: no. 20
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Date: 1985