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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.98
People
Jacob van der Ulft, Dutch (1627 - 1689)
Title
Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1680
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295582

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
diam.: 17.1 cm (6 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown ink, on tabs at lower left and lower right: Jac: vander. / ulft F. 1680.
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 364
  • label: former mat, typeface: JACOB VAN DER ULFT / (Gorichem 1627 _ Noordwijk 1680) / sepia diam.: 17 cm. ges. & ged.: 1680 / Tent.: Leiden, Lakenhal 1916 III no 98 / Coll.: R. della Falle de Waerloos, / Amsterdam 1904 / " Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot(Lugt 561) / [in pencil} " Dr. Beets (Dealer) MLT
  • collector's mark: verso, lower center, brown ink, stamp: L. 561 (Cornelis Hofstede de Groot)
  • watermark: IV (countermark)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
René della Faille de Waerloos, Amsterdam, sold; [Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 19 January 1904, lot 364]. Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, The Hague (L. 561, with his mark), sold; [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 4 November 1931, lots 240-243 are Ulft]. N. Beets, Amsterdam. [Robert M. Light & Co., Boston, Massachusetts], sold; to Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979.98

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.98
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 18, pp. 29-30, repr. p. 93
  • Franklin W. Robinson and Sheldon Peck, Fresh Woods and Pastures New: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape..., William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Museum (Chapel Hill, NC, 1999), sub cat. no. 31, p. 96
  • Old Master and 19th Century Drawings, auct. cat. (London, England, Winter 1999 - 2000), sub cat. no. 19
  • Annemarie Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850: Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gaßner, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, 2011), vol. 2, p. 552, under cat. no. 1045
  • One Hundred Drawings and Watercolors, auct. cat., Stephen Ongpin and Guy Peppiatt (London, 2011), p. 5, under cat. no. 3

Exhibition History

  • Italy through Dutch Eyes: Dutch Seventeenth Century Landscape Artists in Italy, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 04/22/1964 - 05/24/1964
  • Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 04/15/1984 - 07/07/1984; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/05/1984 - 11/29/1984

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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