- Gallery Text
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Grimmer, a contemporary of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, was renowned as a landscape painter. In this early work — the first dated by the artist — the distant view at the right recalls the imaginary, composite panoramas typical of Netherlandish landscapes of the first half of the sixteenth century. Grimmer broke with that tradition, however, and developed a more naturalistic approach, introducing the kind of intimate depiction of the Flemish countryside seen in the foreground of this picture.
- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1992.58
- People
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Jacob Grimmer, Flemish (c. 1525 - 1590)
- Title
- Landscape with Cottages
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1561
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
- Culture
- Flemish
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/227279
- Location
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Level 2, Room 2540, European Art, 13th–16th century, The Renaissance
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 59.3 x 98.6 cm (23 3/8 x 38 13/16 in.)
frame: 84.7 x 123.5 x 10 cm (33 3/8 x 48 5/8 x 3 15/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.l.: GR 1561
- inscription: on back of frame, in black paint: 6048
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund in honor of William W. Robinson
- Accession Year
- 1992
- Object Number
- 1992.58
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 44, repr.
- Exhibition History
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Northern Renaissance Art: Selected Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/28/1984 - 04/08/1984
32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050
- Subjects and Contexts
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Google Art Project
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