- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1.2018.29
- People
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Hans Bol, Netherlandish (Mechelen, Belgium 1534 - 1593 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Title
- Landscape with a Road near a Pond
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1590
- Culture
- Netherlandish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/183610
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3600, University Research Gallery
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Brown ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
- Dimensions
- 14.6 x 21.1 cm (5 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, upper left, brown ink: Dr Petzold.
- inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 7. 1
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 713 / Oprttur
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: B [underlined]
- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Hans Bol 1534 Mecheln - 1593 Amsterdam
- collector's mark: verso, lower left, blue ink: Dr POKORNY [encircled] [Lugt 2036, mark of Franz Pokorny]
- inscription: recto, lower center, brown ink: Hans Bol / 1590
- collector's mark: verso, lower left, blue ink: M G A [in monogram] [Lugt 3306, mark of Maida and George Abrams]
- collector's mark: verso, lower left, brown ink: E / J [encircled] [Lugt 873b, mark of Ernst Jürgen Otto]
- inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: 8
- watermark: none
- Provenance
- Dr. Joseph Benjamin Petzold, Vienna (19th Century). Dr. Frans Pokorny, Vienna (19th Century). [Gutekunst-Klipstein, Bern, April 28, 1955, lot 321]. Ernst Jürgen Otto, Celle (Lugt 873b). [Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam]. [Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam]. Nathan Chaikin, Tolochenaz. (?) [Alfred Brod Gallery, London]. Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306), 1968
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
- Accession Year
- 2018
- Object Number
- 1.2018.29
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Franklin W. Robinson, ed., Things of this World: A Selection of Dutch Drawings from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, 1972), cat. 7, pp. 12, 28, and 41-43, repr. p. 29
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), pp. 28-29, cat. no. 2, repr. p. 29
- Exhibition History
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Things of this World: A Selection of Dutch Drawings from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 10/31/1972 - 02/25/1973
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
Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022
- Subjects and Contexts
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Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
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