id:			123303
accession number:	1943.547
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.547
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:56.731000

The Milkmaid, 1643. Gerrit Claesz. Bleker (Dutch, 1656). Etching with surface tone; sheet: 15.7 x 24.1 cm (6 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1943.547

title:				The Milkmaid
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			1643
creation date earliest:		1643
creation date latest:		1643
current location:		
creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
copyright:			

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culture:	Netherlands
technique:	etching with surface tone
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Hollstein 9 (II.53)

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CREATORS

* Gerrit Claesz. Bleker (Dutch, 1656)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 15.7 x 24.1 cm (6 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
state of the work:	i/ii
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support materials:

	description:	cream(3) laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	lower left, in plate: GBleker f 1643 ; VERSO, lower left, in graphite: Bleker ; lower left, in graphite: 18[4?]a / f10-C M ; lower left, in graphite: 38622/g5 ; lower center, in brown ink: 218 ; lower right, in graphite: B.9. W. 9 I ; lower right, in graphite: [15?]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Dutch Painting, The Golden Age
	opening date:   1955-01-05T05:00:00
	<i>Dutch Painting, The Golden Age</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).

	title:		Seventeenth Century Dutch Painting
	opening date:   1959-02-18T05:00:00
	<i>Seventeenth Century Dutch Painting</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 18-June 8, 1959).

	title:		Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics
	opening date:   1982-04-27T04:00:00
	<i>Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

	title:		Northern Landscape Traditions: 16th and 17th Century Prints and Drawings
	opening date:   1989-10-10T04:00:00
	<i>Northern Landscape Traditions: 16th and 17th Century Prints and Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Joseph Grunling (d. 1845), Vienna, stamp (Lugt 1463) lower left, verso, in black ink. (Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, 7/4/28); sold to Lewis B. Williams (1928-1943), Cleveland.
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