1979.106: View of a Town; verso: Two Battlescenes and Landscape

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1979.106

People

Follower of Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, Netherlandish (Breda (?), Belgium 1526/30 - 1569 Brussels, Belgium)

Title

View of a Town; verso: Two Battlescenes and Landscape

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1566?

Culture

Netherlandish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295507

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: brown ink

Dimensions

14 x 21.8 cm (5 1/2 x 8 9/16 in.)
mount: 20.2 x 27.5 cm (7 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower center, graphite: 123
• inscription: lower left, brown ink: Sten
• inscription: upper center, black chalk: 1566 [possibly by the artist's hand]
• watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Lord Wharton. [Baskett & Day, London, 1975], sold; to Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979.106

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer

Accession Year

1979

Object Number

1979.106

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Eunice Williams, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., ed. Konrad Oberhuber and William W. Robinson, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), cat. no. 13, p. 25, repr. pp. 88-89

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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