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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.144
People
Jan van Goyen, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1596 - 1656 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
A River Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1653
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/212405

Location

Location
Level 2, Room 2300, European Art, 17th–19th century, Seventeenth–Century Dutch and Flemish Art
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink and partial framing line in black chalk, laid down on mount
Dimensions
16.8 x 26.8 cm (6 5/8 x 10 9/16 in.)
mount: 17.8 x 27.9 cm (7 x 11 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Signed, lower right, black chalk: VG 1653
  • inscription: verso, visible through mount, upper center, graphite: Van Goyen
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink stamp: L. 1164 (Jean-François Gigoux)
  • watermark: in mount: unidentified
  • (not assigned): mount, verso, lower left, blue ink: L. 3306 (Maida and George Abrams)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jean-François Gigoux, Paris (L. 1164, with his mark), Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20-23 March 1882, lot 316. Ernest May, Paris. Private collector. David Jones, Paris. Maida and George Abrams, Boston; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.144.

NOTE: Ernest May's ownership is according to an inscription on the backboard; the drawing was not in his sale at the Galerie George Petit, 4 June 1890.


Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.144
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Davaco Publishers (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1972 - 1987), vol I, cat. no. Z524a; III, cat no. Z524a and sub. cat. no. Z848m
  • 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. 33, pp. 84-85, repr.

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
  • Abrams 50th reunion exhibition, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/2004 - 06/14/2004
  • 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/09/2015 - 09/10/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/24/2024 - 02/10/2025

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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