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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2000.292
People
Johann Georg Wille, German (Königsberg in Bayern, Germany 1715 - 1808 Paris, France)
Title
Rustic Cottage with Seated Woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1765
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/177220

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and brown ink, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and black and brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
18 x 26.3 cm (7 1/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
mount: 29.7 x 38.7 cm (11 11/16 x 15 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: bottom center, brown ink: J. G. Wille 1765
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: Dessin signe J. G Wille 1765
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper right, brown ink, pen: [illegible, obscured by mount]
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper right, red crayon: 2
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite, erased: no 20 / [illeg]
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: J. G WILLE 1765
  • inscription: mount, lower center, black ink: J-G. Wille / 1765 [in decorated cartouche]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Roberta Olson and Alexander Johnson, New York, gift to HUAM, 2000.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson
Accession Year
2000
Object Number
2000.292
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Mounted. Framing line in black ink, over graphite.

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/26/2022 - 01/09/2023

Verification Level

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