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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1969.54
People
Jan van Goyen, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1596 - 1656 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
Harbor Scene with a Watchtower and Beacon
Other Titles
Original Language Title: "Bords de la Meuse"
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1636
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227791

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 95.3 x 132.1 cm (37 1/2 x 52 in.)
frame: 130.2 x 167 x 15.2 cm (51 1/4 x 65 3/4 x 6 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: at left: V Goyen , Signed date: 1636

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul M. Warburg (by 1913?-1932), by descent; to his son, James P. Warburg (1932-1969) bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of James P. Warburg
Accession Year
1969
Object Number
1969.54
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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)
  • Gedi Sibony, Marjorie B. Cohn, and Emily Rauh Pulitzer, In the Still Epiphany, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, MO, 2012), p. 47

Exhibition History

  • Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009

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