The 50 plates / Plate 20 of 50
Plate 20 of 50
Clothing the Orphan Children
Das Einkleiden der Waisenkinder
Jan de Bray
Not yet located
The drawing
A crowded charitable scene showing orphan children being dressed and fitted with clothing, with attendants and officials gathered outside an institutional building.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Jan de Bray
- Title as printed
- Das Einkleiden der Waisenkinder
- Title in English
- Clothing the Orphan Children
- Date
- 1663 (inscribed; Becker 1922)
- Medium and size
- Pen and wash, 27.5 × 30 cm
- Inscription
- Signed and dated “J. Bray 1663”
- Collection in 1922
- Geheimrat A. Köster, Leipzig (earlier, per a note on the back, the de Vos collection)
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Jan de Bray. The drawing is signed and dated “J. Bray 1663” (J and B joined), as Becker reads it; the inscription in the reproduction also reads 1663. De Bray repeatedly depicted Haarlem's orphanages and their charitable activities, including other securely attributed drawings and paintings of orphan care.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 20.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.