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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR61.17
People
Ferdinand Kobell, German (Mannheim, Germany 1740 - 1799 Munich, Germany)
Title
Landscape with Travelers
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Flußlandschaft mit Wegbiegung und Reiter
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
18th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222872

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
41 x 49.3 cm (16 1/8 x 19 7/16 in.)
framed: 52.5 x 63.8 cm (20 11/16 x 25 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: on upper stretcher at r., black ink, handwritten, German: Ferd: Kobel // ein Pfaelzer Maler // geboren in Mannheim 1740

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Kuhn
Accession Year
1961
Object Number
BR61.17
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The canvas is mounted overall to metal.
Commentary
William J. Lennon, Montclair, NJ (?-1959), sold; to Charles L. Kuhn, Cambridge, MA (1959-1961), gift; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1961.

Publication History

  • Margret Biedermann, Ferdinand Kobell 1740-1799: Das malerische und zeichnerische Werk, Galerie Biedermann (Munich, Germany, 1973), p. 122, repr. p. 145 as fig. 43
  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 44, repr.
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 115, fig. 449, ill. p. 272
  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 213

Exhibition History

  • German Rococo and Romanticism, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, 03/12/1977 - 05/01/1977
  • German Painting 1760-1960: A New Installation, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 12/20/1983 - 02/19/1984
  • Masterpieces of European Art, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/22/1985 - 09/15/1985

Verification Level

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