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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.642
People
Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch (Haarlem 1628/29 - 1682 Amsterdam)
Title
The Kamperbuitenpoort in Amersfoort
Other Titles
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
  • 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
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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

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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