id: 124115
accession number: 1945.114
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Two Bohemian Peasants in Half-Length, c. 1600. Roelant Savery (Flemish, 1576–1639). Pen and light- and dark-brown inks over preliminary drawing in black chalk; sheet: 15.1 x 18.8 cm (5 15/16 x 7 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1945.114
title: Two Bohemian Peasants in Half-Length
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creation date: c. 1600
creation date earliest: 1595
creation date latest: 1605
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Flanders
technique: Pen and light- and dark-brown inks over preliminary drawing in black chalk
department: Drawings
collection: DR - Flemish
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Roelant Savery (Flemish, 1576–1639) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 15.1 x 18.8 cm (5 15/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
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description: beige(1) laid paper
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inscriptions:
inscription: by artist, upper left, in brown ink: omberne / hoet ; by artist, upper right, in brown ink: gr[y?]sse hoed [=gray hat]; by artist, upper center, in black chalk: [illegible] ; by artist, upper center, in black chalk: [illegible] ; by artist, left center, in brown ink: [brúinockker?] rock [=brown-ochre mantel]; by artist, center, in brown ink: zwartter rock [=black mantel]; by artist, lower left, in brown ink: [nart?] het leuen [=taken from life]; VERSO, lower left, in blue pencil: WCA805 / WCA803
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition
opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00
Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).
title: Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries
opening date: 1960-05-18T04:00:00
Drawings from the Museum Collection: 15th-17th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 18-October 11, 1960).
title: Prints and Drawings by Pieter Bruegel
opening date: 1961-03-23T05:00:00
Prints and Drawings by Pieter Bruegel. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (March 23-May 7, 1961).
title: Drawings
opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00
Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).
title: Old Master Drawings
opening date: 1964-03-10T05:00:00
Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964).
title: Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands
opening date: 1965-01-01T05:00:00
Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).
title: Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection
opening date: 1965-05-06T04:00:00
Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).
title: Old Master Prints and Drawings
opening date: 1966-07-29T04:00:00
Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967).
title: Drawings from the Museum Collection
opening date: 1967-06-09T04:00:00
Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968).
title: Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection
opening date: 1989-10-10T04:00:00
Netherlandish Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).
title: Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel
opening date: 2022-10-09T04:00:00
Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (October 9, 2022-January 8, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Oscar Huldschinsky, Berlin
date: ?-1931
footnotes:
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his sale, Paul Graupe, Berlin, November 3, 1931, no. 23
date: 1931
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Karl Rudolf (?), Berlin
date: c. 1931-?
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David Birnbaum, New York
date: ?-?
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with Knoedler & Co., New York
date: 1945
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1945-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
De Tolnay, Charles. The Drawings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, With a Critical Catalogue. London: A. Zwemmer, 1952.
page number: 84, no. 112 (as Bruegel)
url:
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 585
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n109
Münz, Ludwig, and Luke Herrmann. Bruegel: the drawings. London: Phaidon, 1961.
page number: 223-224, no. 120 (as Bruegel)
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 105
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n129
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 105
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n129
Spicer, Joaneath Ann, “The ‘Naer Het Leven’ Drawings: By Pieter Bruegel or Roelandt Savery?” Master Drawings Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring, 1970): pp. 3-30, 63-82.
page number: pp. 6, 15, 25; pl. 5
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Kuznet︠s︡ov, I︠U︡, and T. A. T︠S︡eshkovskai︠a︡. Dessins flamands et hollandais du dix-septième siècle. Collections de l'Ermitage, Leningrad et du Musée Pouchkine, Moscou. Exh. cat. Bruxelles: Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, boulevard de l'Empereur, 3, 1972.
page number: 216-17 (as Bruegel)
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 122
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n142
Spicer-Durham, Joaneath Ann. The Drawings of Roelandt Savery." PhD diss, Yale University, 1979.
page number: no. C 208
url:
Liess, Reinhard. "Die Kleinen Landschaften Pieter Bruegels D.A. Im Lichte Seines Gesamtwerks: 2. Teil." Kunsthistorisches Jahrbuch Graz / Institute Fur Kunstgeschichte 17 (1981): 35-150.
page number: 37-38, 47, 70, 87, 96-97, 103-05, 110 (as Bruegel)
url:
Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta. Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680: A Selection from North American Collections. Princeton, N.J.: Art Museum, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 1982.
page number: 168-169, no. 62
url:
Dunbar, Burton L., and Edward J. Olszewski. Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996.
page number: 61-63, no. 38
url:
Peters, Emily J., Laura Ritter, William Griswold, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, and Koenraad Jonckheere. Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Bruegel. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.
page number: Reproduced: p. 203, no. 59
url:
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