2023.642: The Kamperbuitenpoort in Amersfoort
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2023.642
- People
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Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch (Haarlem 1628/29 - 1682 Amsterdam)
- Title
- The Kamperbuitenpoort in Amersfoort
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Riverbank with Cottages, a Drawbridge, and Two Towers
Former Title: River Landscape - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1650
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/212434
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black chalk on beige antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in black chalk
- Dimensions
- 14.2 x 20 cm (5 9/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- collector's mark: verso, lower right, blue ink: M G A [in monogram] [Lugt 3306, mark of Maida and George Abrams]
- inscription: Verso, lower left, graphite: cnn (?)
- inscription: Verso, bottom center, black chalk: Ruysdael fec [?]
- inscription: verso, center right, above and below the "x," in very faint graphite: [indecipherable]
- watermark: none
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Private collection, Switzerland. [Claude Kuhn, Basel], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306), 1992, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Professor Seymour Slive
- Accession Year
- 2023
- Object Number
- 2023.642
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Seymour Slive, "Additions to Jacob van Ruisdael. II", The Burlington Magazine (1995), 137, pp. 452-457, pp. 452, 454, 455, fig. 47
- Jeroen Giltaij, "Further Additions to Jacob van Ruisdael", Shop Talk: Studies in Honor of Seymour Slive, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., 1995), pp. 87, 88, 312, fig. 2
- Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2001), cat. no. D28, repr.
- 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. 164-165, cat. no. 69, repr. p. 165
- Annemarie Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850: Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gaßner, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, 2011), vol. 2, p. 483, under cat. no. 896
- Laurens Schoemaker, Jacob van Ruisdael tekent de Kamperbuitenpoort in Amersfoort, Connoisseurship: Essays in Honour of Fred G. Meijer (Leiden, 2020)
- Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 45, 232, repr. p. 46 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
- 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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