recto: Elegant couple in a curtained loggia with servant bringing food to a table
Drawing
1596-1674 (made)
1596-1674 (made)
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recto: Under a curtain at upper right, a servant brings food to an unoccupied table in a loggia; at centre an elegant couple lean over a chair beside a clumn, and a dog runs up to the steps on their left. In the distance, an empty carriage waits beside a wooded garden
verso: Three elegant couples, one strolling in the garden in the left distance, one seated under the loggia at left and one standing behind a pedestal at far right, with two dogs nearby; in the right background, a servant is bringing food to a table or cleaning it
verso: Three elegant couples, one strolling in the garden in the left distance, one seated under the loggia at left and one standing behind a pedestal at far right, with two dogs nearby; in the right background, a servant is bringing food to a table or cleaning it
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Point of brush and black ink, with grey wash, over black chalk, on two pages of an album or sketchbook glued together; traces of framing line in grey wash at lower edge; a few scattered oil stains in reddish brown; inscribed in brown ink. |
| Brief description | Drawing, 'Recto: Elegant couple in a curtained loggia with a servant bringing food to a table. Verso: Loggia with elegant couples and a servant clearing a table', by Leonard Bramer, point of brush and black ink, with grey wash, over black chalk, on two pages of an album or sketchbook glued together; traces of framing line in grey wash at lower edge; a few scattered oil stains in reddish brown; inscribed in brown ink; 17th century |
| Physical description | recto: Under a curtain at upper right, a servant brings food to an unoccupied table in a loggia; at centre an elegant couple lean over a chair beside a clumn, and a dog runs up to the steps on their left. In the distance, an empty carriage waits beside a wooded garden verso: Three elegant couples, one strolling in the garden in the left distance, one seated under the loggia at left and one standing behind a pedestal at far right, with two dogs nearby; in the right background, a servant is bringing food to a table or cleaning it |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| Object history | Robert Jackson (dealer), London; from whom purchased by the museum, 14 June 1887 for £0. 17s. 6d. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat. 40 illus. p. 84. |
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| Accession number | D.378-1887 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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