1999.157: River Landscape

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1999.157

People

Johannes Leupenius, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1643 - 1693 Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Title

River Landscape

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/212398

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown and gray ink and brown wash, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

10.8 x 18.2 cm (4 1/4 x 7 3/16 in.)
mount: 14.2 x 22.1 cm (5 9/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: P. Koning.
• inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink: 12/64
• collector's mark: verso, lower left, black ink, stamp: L. 1450 (Jacob de Vos)
• collector's mark: mount, lower right, black ink, stamp: L. 2811b (C. R. Rudolf)
• inscription: verso, center, graphite: 16
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 6 (encircled) inlay
• inscription: mount, verso, lower left, graphite: ob zu de Vos gehorig?
• inscription: mount, verso, lower center, graphite: zu 9808 [numbers underlined]
• watermark: fragment

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Abraham van Broyel, Amsterdam, his sale; [Hendrik de Leth, Amsterdam, 30 October 1759, lot 629 (as Philip Koning)]; sold; to Johan Goll von Franckenstein, Amsterdam (with Goll I number), his sale: [de Vries, Brondgeest, Engelberts and Roos, Amsterdam, 1 July 1833, album R, lot 8], sold; to I. van Idsinga. Jacob de Vos Jacobszoon, Amsterdam (L. 1450, with is mark), possibly in his sale; [C.F. Roos & C. F. Roos, Jr., Muller & Co., van Pappelendam & Schouten et C. M. van Gogh, Amsterdam, 22-24 May 1883, possibly part of lot 279], sold; to Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau, Paris and London. Carl Robert Rudolf, London (L. 2811b, with his mark), his sale; [Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 6 June 1977, lot 133 (as attributed to Valentin Klotz)], sold; to [C.G. Boerner, Dusseldorf, "Aus unseren Mappen 1977", Neue Lagerliste, 68 (as Johannes Leupenius)], sold, to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (L. 3306, without their mark); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.157.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Accession Year

1999

Object Number

1999.157

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1979), vol. 7, cat. no. 1571x, repr.
• Hans-Ulrich Beck, "Goll van Franckenstein als Käufer von Zeichnungen auf der Auktion van Abraham..", Oud Holland (1984), vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 111-116, no. 10, repr.
• Peter Schatborn, Rembrandt and his Circle: Drawings in the Frits Lugt Collection, Thoth Publishers and Fondation Custodia (2010), vol. 1, p. 282, under cat. no. 114
• 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. 42, pp. 13, 122-3, repr.

Exhibition History

• 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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