1.2018.29: Landscape with a Road near a Pond

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1.2018.29

People

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

Physical Descriptions

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

• 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

Recorded Ownership History

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

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

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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
• Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 168-169, 228, repr. p. 168 as fig. 1, detail repr. p. 169 as fig. 2, infrared image of detail repr. p. 169 as fig. 3

Exhibition History

• 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

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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