- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- M24269
- People
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Laurent de La Hyre, French (Paris 1606 - 1656 Paris)
- Title
- The Overhanging Rocks, a Dead Tree at Left
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Les rochers couverts (avec l'arbre mort à gauche)
Series/Book Title: Suite de Six Paysages - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1640
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/188342
- Physical Descriptions
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- Technique
- Etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 9.7 x 15.6 cm (3 13/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: paper, watermark: posthorn in shield, not the same, however, as the posthorn in shield on "Mountainous Landscape"
- inscription: verso, brown ink, handwritten, French: Le liure a Six feu[i]lle / Legave [or] Legare (The book with Six pages / [?]) [17th or early 18th c, with an elaborate calligraphic 'paraphe' as the final stroke]
- Provenance
- H. von Bayer, (1293), Collector. The dealer says the print also belonged to C. von Guérard, d. 1904 (L.1109), although the stamp is not present.
Richard Jung, Collector. not in Lugt
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- State
- i/ii
- Standard Reference Number
- R.-D. 30, R.&Th. 178
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- M24269
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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