The Four-Wheeled Cart

1643

Gerrit Claesz Bleker

Artist, Dutch, active 1628 - 1656

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20.6 x 30.2 cm (8 1/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 20.7 x 30.2 cm (8 1/8 x 11 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.18.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 10, State i/ii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Julius Hoffmann (Lugt 1264). A. Alteroff (Lugt 1727). (David Tunick, Inc., New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: GBleker / 1643; by later hand, lower left in graphite: V7692/fran / 799 JN / B. 10.; by later hand, lower right in ink: G. 3. feuilles; by later hand, lower right in graphite: DTMTC.TKA; lower center verso: 51. Le chariot...Rare (printed label, pasted on print); on label in graphite: Bleker; by later hand, lower center, obscured by label: (not deciphered)

Wikidata ID

Q75426862


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