2023.636: Two Wooden Houses in the Goudsbloemstraat, Burned December 25, 1682

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2023.636

People

Jan van der Heyden, Dutch (Gorkum 1637 - 1712 Amsterdam)

Title

Two Wooden Houses in the Goudsbloemstraat, Burned December 25, 1682

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1682

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/100021

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown and black ink, gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

26.7 x 20 cm (10 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: foolscap with seven points
• inscription: lower right, brown ink: J. vander Heyde f 1682.
• inscription: mount, verso, lower right, black ink: 89
• label: mount, lower right: 140
• inscription: mount, lower center, graphite: Dessin de Jan van der Heyden 1637-1712. / L'un des meilleurs urbanistes hollandais / a été gravé, d'après une mention au verso. / Tres beau dessin. / sur papier à la folie.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Hotel Drouot, Paris, Feb. 20, 1967, lot 140]. Carel (Charles) Emil Duits, London; to his heirs, sold via [Stephen Somerville, London]; to Maida and George Abrams, 2002

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in appreciation of Peter C. Sutton, Harvard College '72

Accession Year

2023

Object Number

2023.636

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Dessins anciens: collection de Monsieur J.B. . ., auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, February 20, 1967), lot 140, pl. IV
• "Firefighting in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century", Duits Quarterly, ed. Clifford Duits (1968), no. 12, p. 14, repr. p. 12
• Helga Wagner, "Jan van der Heyden als Zeichner: Die Zeichnungen für das Buch über die 'Slang-Brandspuiten'", Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen (1970), 12, pp. 111-150, pp. 119 n. 19, 126-127, fig. 11
• Lyckle de Vries, Jan van der Heyden, Meulenhoff/Landshoff (Amsterdam, 1984), p. 93
• Michiel C. Plomp, "[Review] Bruegel to Rembrandt. Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection.", Oud Holland (2004), vol. 117, no. 1/2, pp. 99-102, p. 102 n. 12
• Susan Donahue Kuretsky, Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, exh. cat., Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY, 2005), cat. no. 47, repr. (color)
• Peter C. Sutton and Yale University Press, Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712), exh. cat. (New Haven and London, 2006), cat. no. 46, repr. (color)
• Jan de Klerk and Erik Schmitz, Amsterdam in Vuur en Vlam: Het Brandspuitenboek van Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712), exh. cat., W Books and Stadsarchief Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 2023), pp. 64-67, repr. p. 67 as afb. 10.6

Exhibition History

• Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/22/2003 - 07/06/2003
• Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, 04/08/2005 - 06/19/2005; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 08/20/2005 - 10/30/2005; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 01/10/2006 - 03/26/2006
• Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712), Bruce Museum, Greenwich, 09/16/2006 - 01/10/2007
• Mirror of Holland: Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Part 2, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 03/26/2011 - 07/31/2011

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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