1999.149: A Shepherd and His Flock amidst Ruins

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

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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

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