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A Peasant Couple
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Jane Cleaver (Mrs. Robert Bell Livesey) by 1789 by descent; to .Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Peters Turton. Mr. and Mrs. Multon and Marianne Lambarde Beechmont Kent by 1848 by descent; to A.C.M.B. Scott by 1896 sale; [Christie's London 10 July 1973; lot 12] sold; to Maida and George Abrams Boston (L. 3306 mount verso lower left); The Maida and George Abrams Collection 1999.156..
NOTE: This drawing was preserved in an album that was made in the late seventeenth century originally containing 164 drawings. The title page of the album read "Verscheyde studies van Berchem Potter V. d. Velde Ostade Backhuysen Jardyn Schellings Snyders Bamboots de Gyn Koning &c. &c."
The Maida and George Abrams Collection Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts
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