id:			329352
accession number:	2019.13
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.13
updated:		2023-08-24 01:32:49.628000

Portrait of a Woman Near a Fountain, a Rose in Her Hand, 1680–85. Johan Thopas (Dutch, 1630–1700). Lead point with accents in black ink on vellum; sheet: 22 x 18.7 cm (8 11/16 x 7 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2019.13

title:				Portrait of a Woman Near a Fountain, a Rose in Her Hand
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creation date:			1680–85
creation date earliest:		1680
creation date latest:		1685
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Netherlands, 17th century
technique:	lead point with accents in black ink on vellum
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Dutch
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Johan Thopas (Dutch, 1630–1700)  - artist
Dutch artist, ca. 1630-ca. 1700
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measurements: Sheet: 22 x 18.7 cm (8 11/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	verso, number “4” in graphite
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	inscription:	collector’s stamp “PG”? in red ink
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Collection Wellesley, on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
	date: 1914-1918
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	Sotheby's, London, England
	date: June 27, 1922
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	Sotheby's, London, England
	date: June 20, 1928
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	Collection Henry Scipio Reitlinger [1882-1950], London, England
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	Sotheby's, London, England
	date: June 22, 1954
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	Private Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: March 4, 2019
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fun fact:
The 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Thopas was both deaf and mute.

digital description:
The Dutch artist Johann Thopas made meticulous drawn portraits of merchants and intellectuals in the Dutch city of Assendelft. His drawn portraits—made faster and for less expense than painted portraits—appealed to middle-class patrons, as did his unique style combining naturalistic likenesses with elaborate background settings. Using a combination of leadpoint and ink, Thopas achieved remarkable tonal subtlety in this image of a well-dressed woman holding a flower in front of an ornate neoclassical garden.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Foskett, Daphne. A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters. London: Faber and Faber, 1972.
	page number: 	Vol. 1, p. 548
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	Foskett, Daphne. Collecting Miniatures. Woodbridge, Eng: Antique Collectors' Club, 1979.
	page number: 	p. 143
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	Ekkart, Rudolf E. O., Johannes Thopas, and Peter van den Brink. Deaf, dumb & brilliant: Johannes Thopas, master draughtsman. 2014.
	page number: 	p. 84, fig. 49, cat. no. 61, p. 132
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IMAGES

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