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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.634
People
Jan van Goyen, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1596 - 1656 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
Landscape with Skaters
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Skaters on a Pond
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1653
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/183614

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk
Dimensions
20.5 x 30.1 cm (8 1/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: center of sheet: LR
  • inscription: Signed, lower right, in black chalk: VG 1653
  • collector's mark: Verso, lower right, blue ink: M G A [in monogram] (Lugt 3306, mark of The Maida and George Abrams Collection)
  • inscription: Recto, upper right, brown ink: No 27
  • inscription: Recot, lower left, graphite: 315
  • inscription: Recto, lower right, graphite: van gooijen

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jhr. J.A. Repelaer, The Hague, sale [The Hague, November 7, 1967, lot 144]; to Alfred Brod, London. Private collection, Amsterdam. [Evert Douwes, Amsterdam]. Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306), 2000, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in memory of George P. Bates, Harvard College '54, Harvard Business School '58
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.634
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Davaco Publishers (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1972 - 1987), vol. 1, no. 356, repr.; vol. 3, no. 356
  • Esaias van de Velde: schilder: 1590/91-1630. Jan van Goyen: tekenaar: 1596-1656. Tentoonstelling van een 60-tal landschappen uit de traditie van het noordnederlans realisme tussen 1615 en 1655, exh. cat., Gebr. Douwes (Amsterdam, 1981), repr. p. 33
  • 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. 19, repr.
  • Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 160-161, 230, repr. p. 160 as fig. N

Exhibition History

  • Esaias van de Velde: schilder: 1590/91-1630. Jan van Goyen: tekenaar: 1596-1656. Tentoonstelling van een 60-tal landschappen uit de traditie van het noordnederlans realisme tussen 1615 en 1655, Gebr. Douwes, 03/12/1981 - 04/12/1981
  • 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

Verification Level

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