1983.86: Mountainous Landscape with Figures

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1983.86

People

Pieter Stevens, Flemish (Mechelen 1567 - 1624 Prague)

Title

Mountainous Landscape with Figures

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th-17th century

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295555

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and gray and blue wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in graphite laid down

Dimensions

17.8 x 25 cm (7 x 9 13/16 in.)
mount: 18.7 x 25.9 cm (7 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: upper right, black chalk over brown ink: 67
• inscription: lower right, graphite: 13
• inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: J 1462/8
• inscription: mount, verso, left center, graphite: Roelant SAVERY / [erased inscription...] 180 x 25.. mm
• inscription: mount, verso, left center, graphite: Everdingen
• inscription: mount, verso, upper right, graphite: R. Savery
• inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: 105
• inscription: verso, upper left, showing through to recto: Dr. Petzold

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Maida and George Abrams, Boston, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1983.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Maida and George S. Abrams in memory of Samuel Abrams, Harvard Class of 1923, LL.B. 1926

Accession Year

1983

Object Number

1983.86

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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