Studies of a Bear, 1620s?

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Medium

brown wash with blue gouache over black chalk on blue-green laid paper, inlaid in old album page

Dimensions

sheet: 50.2 × 29.6 cm (19 3/4 × 11 5/8 in.)
mount: 60 × 37 cm (23 5/8 × 14 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John Carter Brown IV and Elissa Brown in Memory of J. Carter Brown

Accession Number

2017.132.1

Artists / Makers

Leonard Bramer (artist) Dutch, 1596 - 1674

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: none; verso: by later hand, top left in brown ink: No. 209 teeckeninge van van Eyck 40

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

J. Carter Brown [1934-2002], given to his wife Pamela Drexel Brown [1947-2005]; by descent to their children, John Carter Brown IV [born 1977] and Elissa Lucinda Brown [born 1983], New York; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Brown, Jay and Elissa