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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.135
People
Dirk Dalens III, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1688 - 1753 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Previously attributed to Dirck Dalens, the Younger, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1654 - 1688 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Landscape with Cattle and Herdsmen
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/199116

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Opaque and transparent watercolor over graphite (?) with gum arabic glazing on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
26 x 38.3 cm (10 1/4 x 15 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Lower right, brown ink: D DALENS
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: 17 [underlined]
  • watermark: IV [countermark]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven, South Walsham, Norfolk. [Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 14 November 1983, lot 74], sold; to Maida and Maida and George Abrams, Boston; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.135.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.135
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 81, pp. 180-81, repr.
  • Vadim Sadkov, Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the XVI-XVIII Centuries, Belgian and Dutch Drawings of the XIX-XX Centuries, ed. Charles Dumas, Foundation for Cultural Inventory (Amsterdam, 2010), p. 97, note 3 (as by Dalens III)
  • Peter C. Sutton, Timeless Splendor: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Susan and Matthew Weatherbie Collection, MFA Publications and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 2024), pp. 138, 141, repr. as fig. 32.3

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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