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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.523
People
Cornelis van Poelenburch, Dutch (Utrecht, Netherlands 1594/1595 - 1667 Utrecht, Netherlands)
Title
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1630-1640
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228320

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on copper
Dimensions
34.1 x 43.9 cm (13 7/16 x 17 5/16 in.)
frame: 50.9 x 60.6 x 4.9 cm (20 1/16 x 23 7/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: C.P. left of center foreground
  • (not assigned): stencilled on reverse of panel: 87HN
  • gallery label: on back of frame: Royal Academy of Arts / Winter Exhibition 1952-53 / no. 340 / [owner:] Captain Eric C. Palmer / 56 Brompton Square, London SW3
  • exhibition label: on backing board: Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., London / Exhibition: Artists in 17th Century Rome / June 1 - July 16 1955 / no. 59 / [owned by] Captain Eric Palmer / "Clapton Revel" / Wooburn Green, Bucks.
  • label: on backing board, handwritten and typewritten: Lent to Central Museum, Utrecht / from March-May 1965 no. 21/22 / Owned by Mrs. C. Palmer
  • exhibition label: on backing board, printed: Color in Art exhibition, cat. no. 34
  • exhibition label: on backing board, printed:: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Master of 17th c. Dutch Landscape Painting / Feb. 3 - May 1, 1988 / cat. no. 70
  • inscription: on back of frame, in white chalk: [£7 3815?]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise Haskell Daly and Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Funds
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.523
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Horst Gerson, Het tijdperk van Rembrandt en Vermeer: De Nederlandse Schilderkunst, Uitgeverij Contact (Amsterdam, 1952), pp. 52-53 and repr. as fig. 150
  • Albert Blankert, Nederlandse 17e Eeuwse Italianiserende Landschapschilders (Dutch 17th Century Italiante Landscape Painters), exh. cat., Davaco Publishers (Soest, Netherlands, 1978), p. 73 as cat. 21 and repr. as fig. 21
  • 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)
  • Christiaan Vogelaar, Jan van Goyen, exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal (Leiden, 1997), p. 38, fig. 36
  • Susan Donahue Kuretsky, Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, exh. cat., Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY, 2005), repr. as fig. 148, p. 240, under no. 67
  • Sam Segal, Mariel Ellens, and Joris Dik, The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum 1682-1749, exh. cat., Waanders Uitgevers (Zwolle, 2007), pp. 96-97, ill. p. 97.

Exhibition History

  • Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/25/1974 - 06/16/1974
  • 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/09/2016 - 09/08/2017
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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