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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.51
People
Lambert Doomer, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1624 - 1700 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Previously attributed to Nicolaes Maes, Dutch (Dordrecht 1634 - 1693 Amsterdam)
Title
Landscape with Shepherds and Cows
Other Titles
Former Title: Man Astride a Donkey and Shepherds in Conversation
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/183711

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
22.7 x 35 cm (8 15/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: Rembrand
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: 340
  • inscription: verso of mount, upper right, graphite: [illegible text]
  • inscription: verso of mount, lower center, graphite: Laban verfolgt Jacob u. Rahel. / Laban chenhant ses idoles caches par Lia / Jacob trifft die drei Herden und Rahel. 1 Mose Kap. 29
  • inscription: verso of mount, lower left, graphite: Laban und die Schafschur / Albertina Genesis 30. 34, 35
  • inscription: lower right of mount, graphite: [illegible text]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Lodewijk Houthakker, Amsterdam, by 1967]. [The Hague, Vereeniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst, April 20, 1972, lot 27, as by Maes]. Maida and George Abrams, Boston

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
1.2018.51
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Drawing irregular shape, laid down on thick laid mount

Publication History

  • Wolfgang Schulz, Lambert Doomer: Sämtliche Zeichnungen, Walter de Gruyter and Co. (Berlin, Germany and New York, NY, 1974), pp. 12, 39, cat. no 5
  • Peter Schatborn, [Review]: "Lambert Doomer: Sämtliche Zeichnungen by Wolfgang Schulz", Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art (1977), vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 45-55, p. 50
  • Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1979), vol. II, pp. 944-945, cat. no 440x, repr. p. 945
  • 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. 138-139, cat. no. 51, repr. p. 139

Exhibition History

  • 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

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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