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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2004.95
People
Hendrik Dankerts, Dutch (c. 1630 - c. 1679)
Title
Rocky Landscape with Herdsman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293817

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray wash and brown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
22.4 x 19.5 cm (8 13/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
mount: 29.7 x 28.4 cm (11 11/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: Cadix )-( oo [ee?] 5an.. [illegible]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, brown ink: Cadix . 1657 . anos [?]
  • collector's mark: mount, lower left, brown ink, mark of Sagredo Borghese: P.O. no. 65.
  • collector's mark: verso, center right, brown ink, mark of Sagredo Borghese: P.O. no: 154 [upside down]
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: Hendrik Dankerts- 1657
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite, erased: B4848. [?]
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite, erased: Sagredo Borgese [?]
  • inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite: Album Borghese
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Zaccaria Sagredo, Venice [with Sagredo inventory numbers P.O. no: 154 on verso and P.O. no. 65 on mount; Lugt 2103a]; his nephew, Gherardo Sagredo, Venice, by descent. [Hotel Drouot, Paris (P. Renaud), May 23, 1986, lot 205 (as Dutch 17th century)]. [Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 15 November 1994, no. 96] sold; to [Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario] sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2004.

The drawing may have been part of the large group of Sagredo drawings sold in Lyon c. 1919.

Drawing was on long-term loan to the Fogg, 1995-2004.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Roy Neuberger
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
2004.95
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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