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Object Number

1.2018.260

People

Jan Lievens, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1607 - 1674 Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Title

Forest Interior with Draftsman

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1664-1665

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/212291

Medium

Brown ink over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in dark brown ink

Dimensions

24 x 36.2 cm (9 7/16 x 14 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: center of sheet: IHS surmounted by a cross with PB below [Churchill 423, 1664]
• collector's mark: Verso, lower right, blue ink: M G A [in monogram] (Lugt 3306, mark of The Maida and George Abrams Collection)
• inscription: Verso, lower left, graphite: 172
• inscription: Verso, lower center, graphite: 10
• inscription: Verso, lower center, graphite: 6 / g A.
• inscription: Verso, lower right, graphite: /. D [?]
• inscription: Verso, lower left, very faint graphite: 6 [?]

Credit Line

Maida and George Abrams Collection, Boston, Long Term Loan

Object Number

1.2018.260

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Hans Schneider and Rudolf E.O. Ekkart, Jan Lievens: sein Leben und seine Werke (Amsterdam, 1973), pp. 235, 372, cat. no. Z313

Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1979), vol. 7, p. 3732, cat. no. 1675ax

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. 65, pp. 148-149, repr.

Mària van Berge-Gerbaud, Rembrandt et son école: Dessins de la collection Frits Lugt, exh. cat., Fondation Custodia (Paris, 1997), p. 196, under no. 87

William W. Robinson, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 60, repr.

Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 2008), cat. no. 132, repr.

Peter Schatborn, Rembrandt and his Circle: Drawings in the Frits Lugt Collection, Thoth Publishers and Fondation Custodia (2010), vol. 1, p. 292 (n. 10), under cat. no. 118

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

Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, British Museum, London, 06/13/2002 - 09/22/2002; Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 10/10/2002 - 12/08/2002; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/22/2003 - 07/06/2003

Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 10/26/2008 - 01/11/2009; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 02/07/2009 - 04/26/2009; Museum het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, 05/17/2009 - 08/09/2009

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

Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022

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