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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2011.515
People
Anthonie van Borssom, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1630 - 1677 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Winter Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/199373

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and gray wash on blue antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
21.8 x 27.2 cm (8 9/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower right, brown ink: AVB (in ligature) - f
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower left, brown ink: 1836 WE 60x [or box?]
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower left, brown ink: J2 31 / J2 Day
  • collector's mark: lower left, brown ink: L. 2617 (William Esdaile)
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, brown ink: A V Borsum
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper right, brown ink: AIE
  • collector's mark: mount, verso, lower left, black ink stamp: L. 2426 (Thomas Dimsdale)
  • inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite: r / s
  • collector's mark: mount, verso, lower left, blue ink stamp: L. 3306 (Maida and George Abrams)
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower center, brown ink: Van Boresom.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Thomas Dimsdale, London, (L. 2426, verso, lower left). William Esdaile, London (L. 2617, lower left); [Christie's, London, 18-25 June 1849, sixth day, lot 1083 or 1086.] A.W.M. Mensing, Amsterdam, sold; [Mensing and Sons, Amsterdam, 27-29 April 1937, lot 69]; to Hollstein. [Karl and Faber, Munich, 6 November 1963, lot 65]. [Alfred Brod Gallery, London.] Carl Robert Rudolf, London (L. 2811b, without his mark). E. Jacobs. Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1974; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 2011.515.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Arthur DuBow, Harvard Class of 1954
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2011.515
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1979), vol. 2, cat. no. 326, p. 696, repr.
  • Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler in vier Banden (Landau, 1983), vol. 5, cat. no. 2026
  • B.P.J. Broos, "Boekbespreking: Werner Sumowski, 'Drawings of the Rembrandt School, 1'", Oud Holland (1984), vol. 98, no. 3, pp. 162-86, p. 177
  • 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. 64, pp. 146-7, repr.
  • Peter C. Sutton and William W. Robinson, Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Bruce Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2011), cat. no. 44, pp. 126-7, repr.
  • Emmanuelle Brugerolles, Mària van Berge-Gerbaud, and Peter Schatborn, Rembrandt et son entourage, exh. cat., Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 2012), under cat. no. 13, pp. 62-63, repr. ill. 1

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
  • Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, 09/24/2011 - 01/08/2012; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 04/15/2012 - 07/08/2012

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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