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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.150
People
Abraham Rutgers, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1632 - 1699 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Seascape with House on Left Bank
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/183522

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
10.1 x 20.6 cm (4 x 8 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, center, red chalk: AvB . n 27 [underlined]
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: Sx
  • inscription: label from old backing board, now removed, graphite and brown ink: No 1 / From a sketchbook by / de oude RUTGERS / (Amsterdam c. 1700) / identified by Dr. H. de Groot

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lodewijk Arnold Houthakker, Amsterdam; to George S. and Maida Abrams, Boston

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
1.2018.150
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Peter C. Sutton and William W. Robinson, Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Bruce Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2011), p. 182, no. A27, repr.

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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