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Peasants in a Tavern, ca. 1662

  • Philips de Konick, Dutch, 1619-1688

Pen and brush and brown ink and brown gray wash on buff laid paper

  • Sheet: 5 3/4 × 8 inches (14.6 × 20.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

38.17

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Watermark: Strasbourg lily: [shield with fleur de lis] [cf. Churchill 400-428]

Inscribed, in pencil, lower center, verso: A. Brouwer Inscribed, in pencil, lower left, verso: X 109

R. Peltzer (Cologne, Germany) [purple collector's mark [L. 2231] on verso at lower right]

May 13-14, 1914, sale (Stuttgart, Germany) no. 90. [as Brouwer]

C.B. Duhrkoop

1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lugts, Frits. Inventoire General des Dessins de Ecoles du Nord, Ecole Hollandaise. 3 vols. Paris, 1929-1933, no. 1319. [as Koninck] Gerson, Horst. Philips Koninck. Berlin, 1936, no. Z.270. [as Koninck] Lesley, Parker. "The Growth of the Collection of Drawings." Bulletin of the DIA 18, 7 (April 1939): pp. 3-6. [as Brouwer] Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, p. 31, no. 10 (ill.). Perlove, Shelley and George S. Keyes, ed. Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin. Notre Dame, 2015, pp. 156-157, cat. 61 (ill.). From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 9.

Philips de Konick, Peasants in a Tavern, ca. 1662, pen and brush and brown ink and brown gray wash on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 38.17.