Harvard Art Museums > 1999.149: A Shepherd and His Flock amidst Ruins Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"A Shepherd and His Flock amidst Ruins (Gerrit de Heer) , 1999.149,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 13, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/212742. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1999.149 People Gerrit de Heer, Dutch (probably Leeuwarden 1606 - 1652 Amsterdam, Netherlands) Title A Shepherd and His Flock amidst Ruins Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1630-1649 Culture Dutch Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/212742 Physical Descriptions Medium Brown ink and brown wash on parchment, framing line in dark brown ink Dimensions 26.7 x 24.5 cm (10 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: Right center on fence, brown ink: G. de Heer inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: W [underlined] C. [?] inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Coll. inscription: verso, lower right, graphite, partially erased: ...(489... ... L. 2095 collector's mark: verso, lower right, blue ink stamp: L. 2095 (Pieter Langerhuizen) collector's mark: verso, lower left, violet ink stamp: L. 1407 (Frederick Carel Theodoor van Isendoorn à Blois) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Baron F.C. Th. Isendoorn à Blois, (L. 1407, with his mark), his sale [C.F. Roos & C. F. Roos, Jr., Amsterdam, 18 August 1879, lot 74], sold, to Linnig. Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam. P. Langerhuizen, Bussum, the Netherlands (L. 2095, with his mark), his sale [Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 29 April - 1 May 1919, lot 372]. Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1965; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.149. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Accession Year 1999 Object Number 1999.149 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Franklin W. Robinson, Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, MA, 1969), cat. 23, p. x, repr. Frederik J. Duparc, "[Review] Collectie Abrams in Rijksprentenkabinet", Tableau (1991), vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 40-42, p. 40 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. 19, pp. 56-57, repr. Susan Donahue Kuretsky, Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, exh. cat., Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY, 2005), cat. no. 28, repr. (color) Annemarie Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850: Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gaßner, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, 2011), vol. 1, p. 271, under cat. no. 426 Exhibition History Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, 03/27/1969 - 04/28/1969; Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, 05/04/1969 - 06/04/1969; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 09/17/1969 - 10/12/1969; University of Connecticut Museum of Art, Storrs, 10/18/1969 - 11/16/1969 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 Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, 04/08/2005 - 06/19/2005; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 08/20/2005 - 10/30/2005; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 01/10/2006 - 03/26/2006 Subjects and Contexts Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu