- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1.2018.283
- People
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Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch (Haarlem 1628/29 - 1682 Amsterdam)
- Title
- Two Large Oaks and Two Deer at the Edge of a Wood
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Two Oak Trees in Extensive Landscape
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1670
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/183613
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3610, University Teaching Gallery
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black chalk and gray wash with touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
- Dimensions
- 20.5 x 32 cm (8 1/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 3148 [encircled] / ibobs
- watermark: Arms of Amsterdam
- collector's mark: Verso, bottom center, blue ink: M G A [in monogram] (Lugt 3306, mark of The Maida and George Abrams Collection)
- inscription: Verso, lower left, black ink: 1 hh (?)
- Provenance
- Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Maida and George Abrams Collection, Boston, Long Term Loan
- Object Number
- 1.2018.283
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2001), cat. no. D87, repr.
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. 70, repr.
Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 2005), cat. no. 96, repr. (color)
Jane Turner and Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2006), vol. 1, p. 174, under cat. no. 261
- Exhibition History
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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
Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 10/23/2005 - 02/05/2006; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 02/25/2006 - 06/04/2006
Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022
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