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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

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

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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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

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

Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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