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A gray and black drawing of a castle surrounded by bushes next to a pond

A gray and black drawing of a castle bounded by tall bushes. It is a two-story building with pointed roofs and several windows. A pond is next to the castle and three ducks are swimming in it. A small boat is parked by the pond's edge. Large trees are found on the right side of the castle. Gathered under the trees are three figures, a carriage, its driver and two horses.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.641
People
Roelant Roghman, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1627 - 1692 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Develstein Castle
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1647
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/183619

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray wash and black chalk with scratchwork and touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
35.2 x 49 cm (13 7/8 x 19 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower right, brown ink: R.R. 164 [7]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: Het Huis Develstein / 188 [above a cut-off inscription in graphite probably also reading Huis Develstein]
  • inscription: Verso, lower right: [in graphite] huys te [in brown ink] Develsteyn
  • watermark: center: Strasbourg lily with WR below
  • collector's mark: Verso, lower right, blue ink: M G A [in monogram] (Lugt 3306, mark of The Maida and George Abrams Collection)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hillebrand Bentes, Amsterdam. Sold [through unidentified auction house, Amsterdam, October 16, 1708 (no. 95 or 236 on the list drawn up before the sale)]. Christiaan van der Hoek, Ouderhoek. Anthonie van der Hoek, Ouderhoek. Jean de Wolf, Ouderhoek. Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Amsterdam, sold [through his sale, Amsterdam, March 3, 1800, lot KK6]. C. S. Roos, Amsterdam. Eduard Chicorius, Dresden. [C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 5-6, 1908, lot 583, sale was canceled and the drawing sold directly to]; Oskar Huldschinsky, Berlin, sold; [through Paul Graupe, Berlin, November 3, 1931, lot 73], probably; to Private collector, by descent to his grandson, sold; [via ArtConsult] to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306), 2001

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 John A. Kaneb, Harvard College '56
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.641
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Die Zeichnungs - Sammlung Oskar Huldschinsky, Berlin: Handzeichnungen niederländischer Meister des 17. Jahrhunderts, exh. cat., Paul Graupe (Berlin, November 3, 1931), pp. 40-41, lot 73, repr. p. 41
  • Jhr. dr. H. W. M. van der Wyck, J. W. Niemeijer, and W. Th. Kloek, De kasteeltekeningen van Roelant Roghman, Canaletto / Stichting Nederlandse buitenplaatsen en Historische Landschappen (Alphen aan den Rijn, 1989 - 1990), vol. 1, p. 53, no. 33, repr.
  • W. Th. Kloek and J. W. Niemeijer, De Kasteeltekeningen van Roelant Roghman, Canaletto / Stichting Nederlandse buitenplaatsen en Historische Landschappen (Alphen aan den Rijn, 1990), vol. 2, p. 132, under Appendix 1
  • 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. 156-157, cat. no. 65, repr. p. 157, watermark repr. p. 279
  • 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), pp. 32, 144-145, cat. no. 54, repr. p. 145
  • Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 136-140, 171, 231, repr. p. 139 as fig. 15

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, 09/24/2011 - 01/08/2012; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 04/15/2012 - 07/08/2012
  • 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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