1.2018.100: A View of Weeresteyn Manor on the Vecht; verso: Sketch of Cliff and Castle over a River

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1.2018.100

People

Johannes Leupenius, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1643 - 1693 Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Title

A View of Weeresteyn Manor on the Vecht; verso: Sketch of Cliff and Castle over a River

Other Titles

Former Title: Landscape with Trees and Canal; verso: sketch of cliff and castle over a river

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/183830

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink on Asian paper

Dimensions

11.4 x 18.5 cm (4 1/2 x 7 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: verso, lower right, black ink: [Lugt 1272, mark of Bernard Houthakker]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam (Lugt 1272) sold [through his sale, Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, November 17-18, 1975, lot 175 (as Leupenius)]; to 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

1.2018.100

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Michael Zell, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeent-Century Dutch Art, Amsterdam University Press (Amsterdam, 2021), pp. 346, 348, repr. p. 348 as fig. 167

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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