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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1982.25
People
Jan Lievens, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1607 - 1674 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
View of a Village
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294919

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on light tan Asian paper; verso: stray mark in purple pencil
Dimensions
actual: 17.5 x 30.6 cm (6 7/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: No 51
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 58
  • label: former mat, typeface: JAN LIEVENS[underlined] / Leyden 1607 - Amsterdam 1674 / A Town among Trees[underlined] / Pen and brown ink, 175 x 306mm / Coll: Albertina / de Vries / Houthakker (L. 1272)
  • label: former mat, typeface: [cut at upper and right edges] TENT RYKSMUSEUM / Pen in bruin. - 176 X 308. / Herk.: Albertina, Wenen, inv. 828g-930g (die Zeichnung, Heft III) / Ksth. R. W. P. de Vries, Amsterdam, mag. cat. II, 1929, blz. 65 / Vlg. Amsterdam 9.XII.1930, nr. 284 met afb. / Vlg. G. W. Eekhout, e.a. Amst. 22.VII.1931 nr. 218 met afb. / Vlg. M.N. e.a., Amst. 21.II.1939 nr. 41 (onjuiste legtemaat). / Litt.: H. Schneider: Lievens, sein Leven und seine Werke, Haarlem / nr. Z 347.
  • collector's mark: verso, lower center, black ink, stamp: L. 1272 (Bernard Houthakker)
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Albertina Museum, Vienna. inv. 828g-930g (die Zeichnung, Heft III). [R. W. P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 1929. Mag. cat. II, blz. 65], sold. [R. W. P. de Vries, Amsterdam, sold at auction, 9 December 1930, lot 284]. [R. W. P. de Vries, Amsterdam, sold at auction, 22 July 1931, lot 218]. [Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam, 21 February 1939, lot 41 (measurements incorrect)]. Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam (L. 1272, verso, lower center). Mr. and Mrs. John H. Steiner, Larchmont, New York, gift, to Fogg Art Museum, 1982.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Steiner
Accession Year
1982
Object Number
1982.25
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hans Schneider, Lievens, sein Leben und seine Werke, De eerven F. Bohn n.v. (Haarlem, 1932), no. Z 347
  • Hans Redeker, De Verzameling van Bernard Houthakker, ed. J. W. Niemeijer, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 1964), cat. no. 53, pp. 24-25

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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