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A landscape drawing of cottage in the middle of a forest surrounded by tall trees

A landscape drawing of a cottage in the middle of a forest surrounded by tall trees. Wooden fences are guarding the cottage. On the left side of the cottage two male figures appear right next to a thick tree, one is standing against the tree and the other one is sitting on the ground right along with a dog.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2018.101
People
Jan Lievens, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1607 - 1674 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Cottage among Trees
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Forest Landscape with Cottages
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1650s-1660s
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/212293

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on toned Asian paper, mounted overall to a sheet of off-white antique laid paper, framing line in dark black ink
Dimensions
22.3 x 37 cm (8 3/4 x 14 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: verso of mount, lower right , blue ink: M G A [in monogram] [Lugt 3306, mark of Maida and George Abrams]
  • inscription: lower left, brown ink, in the artist's hand: IL
  • inscription: recto, bottom center, very faint brown ink: van Borssum
  • inscription: verso of mount, upper left, brown ink: n75x
  • inscription: verso of mount, lower left, faint graphite: 1843
  • inscription: verso of mount, bottom center, very faint graphite: 276 / J. Lievens

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Christie's, London, December 12, 1978, lot 152], sold [via Richard Day, London]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
1.2018.101
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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), pp. 144-145, cat. no. 59, repr. p. 145
  • Jane Turner and Felice Stampfle, Dutch Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2006), vol. 1; p.98, under cat. no. 127; p. 101, under cat. no. 133; p. 284, repr. as fig. 45.
  • Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 2008), under cat. nos. 126-127, fig. 2
  • Peter Schatborn, Rembrandt and his Circle: Drawings in the Frits Lugt Collection, Thoth Publishers and Fondation Custodia (2010), vol. 1, p. 291, under cat. no. 118
  • 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), pp. 32, 62-63, cat. no. 13, repr. p. 63
  • Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 132-134, 230, repr. p. 135 as fig. 12

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • Mirror of Holland: Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Part 1, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 11/20/2010 - 03/06/2011
  • 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

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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