1.2018.8: River Landscape with a Church
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1.2018.8
- People
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Gerrit Battem, Dutch (Rotterdam 1636 - 1684 Rotterdam)
- Title
- River Landscape with a Church
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Wooded River Landscape with Travellers
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 17th century
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/183479
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Opaque and transparent watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink
- Dimensions
- 17.1 x 24.6 cm (6 3/4 x 9 11/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower right, black ink: Battem
- collector's mark: verso, lower center, blue ink: M G A [in monogram] [Lugt 3306, mark of Maida and George Abrams]
- watermark: none
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Christie's, November 25, 1991, lot 146]. [Otto Naumann, Ltd., New York], sold; to Maida and George Abrams Collection, Boston (Lugt 3306), 1996
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
- Accession Year
- 2018
- Object Number
- 1.2018.8
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- William W. Robinson, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 75, repr.
Exhibition History
- Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, British Museum, London, 06/13/2002 - 09/22/2002; Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 10/10/2002 - 12/08/2002; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/22/2003 - 07/06/2003
- Mirror of Holland: Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Part 1, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 11/20/2010 - 03/06/2011
Subjects and Contexts
- Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
Verification Level
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