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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.176
People
Jan van de Velde II, Dutch (Rotterdam(?), Netherlands 1593 - 1641 Enkhuizen, Netherlands)
Title
Keizersberg Castle in Leuven
Other Titles
Former Title: A Castle
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1620s
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/188634

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
18.9 x 30.7 cm (7 7/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • blind stamp: upper left, blind stamp: L. 1499 (unidentified collector)
  • inscription: upper right, covered by white medium: 11
  • inscription: verso, center right, graphite: S vliegr fe
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Unidentified Collector, Vienna? (L. 1499, with his mark). [Louis de Wild, New York], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1963; The Maida and George S. Abrams Collection, 1999.176.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.176
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Franklin W. Robinson, Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, MA, 1969), cat. 44, p. xi, repr.
  • Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 136, 232, repr. p. 136 as fig. 13

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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