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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.146
People
Jan Hackaert, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1628 - after 1685 Amsterdam?, Netherlands)
Title
Pass in the Jura
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1656-1685
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/199105

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown and gray wash, and white opaque watercolor over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
21.3 x 27.3 cm (8 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.)
mount: 27.8 x 37.5 cm (10 15/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower margin, brown ink: La Porte d'Enfer dans l'Erguel, a gauche entre Reuchenette et Sonsseboz.
  • inscription: verso, upper right, brown ink: La Porte d'Enfer dans l'Erguel / près de Bienne
  • watermark: crowned shield with a posthorn, H(?) B I U (?) M below
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 1412 [? covered by mount]
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 66l
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 271
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, blue ink stamp: L. 3306 (Maida and George Abrams)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, lot 34], sold; to
Maida and George Abrams, Boston; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.146.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.146
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Framing line in brown ink with margin below; inscription in margin.

Publication History

  • Frederik J. Duparc, Landscape in Perspective: Drawings by Rembrandt and his Contemporaries, exh. cat., The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, 1988), cat. no. 41, p. 127, repr. and repr. color, p. 35, fig. 41
  • William W. Robinson, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., H. O. Zimman, Inc. (Lynn, MA, 1991), cat. no. 77, pp. 172-3, and p. 9, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Landscape in Perspective: Drawings by Rembrandt and his Contemporaries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/20/1988 - 04/03/1988; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 04/15/1988 - 05/29/1988
  • Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 02/23/1991 - 04/18/1991; Albertina Gallery, Vienna, 05/16/1991 - 06/30/1991; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 01/22/1992 - 04/22/1992; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/10/1992 - 12/06/1992

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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