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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1956.218
People
Circle of Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish (Brussels, Belgium 1568 - 1625 Antwerp, Belgium)
Attributed to Jan Wildens, Flemish (1586 - 1653)
Title
The Schelde River at Antwerp
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th-17th century
Culture
Flemish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296979

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash, transparent watercolor, and touches of blue chalk on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 25.0 x 40.0 cm (9 15/16 x 15 13/16 in.), irregular
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper center, brown ink, 16th or 17th century hand: de mandt van iannuari
  • (not assigned): upper left, brown ink: Jannu[a?]...[i?]
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Mathias Komor, (Lugt 1882a, without his mark), New York, NY], sold; to Fogg Art Museum 1956

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund (Dr. Fritz B. Talbot)
Accession Year
1956
Object Number
1956.218
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 11, 42, cat. no. 1 p. 88
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 42, n.p., repr. pl. 42

Exhibition History

  • Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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