DrawingsDutch17th century

Susannah and the Elders

1691

Artists

Willem van MierisArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Transparent and opaque watercolor, heightened with gold, on parchment

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

13.6 × 10.7 cm (5 3/8 × 4 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Jonas Witsen, Amsterdam, sold [through his sale, Amsterdam, August 16, 1790, kunstboek D, no. 6]. Jan de Groot, Amsterdam, sold [through his sale, Amsterdam, December 10, 1804, kunstboek E, no. 19]; to Adriaan van Harssevoort, sold [through his sale, Rotterdam, November 4, 1817, kunstboek A, no. 46]. Gustav von Gerhardt, Budapest, sold [through his sale, Part I, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, November 9, 1911, lot 358]. Sydney J. Lamon (1897-1973), New York, sold [through Christie's, London, November 26, 1973, lot 318]; to H. R. Bijl, The Hague, sold [through Sotheby's, Amsterdam, November 17, 1993, lot 2]; to Bernard Palitz, by descent; to his son, sold [through Sotheby's, New York, Old Master Drawings, January 28, 2016, lot 240]; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016.

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