1969.101: Landscape with a Cluster of Dwellings and Monasteries on a Hill

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1969.101

People

? Joos de Momper, Flemish (1564 - 1635)

Title

Landscape with a Cluster of Dwellings and Monasteries on a Hill

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296160

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and gray and blue watercolor on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

34.1 x 56.1 cm (13 7/16 x 22 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: mount, verso, lower left, purple ink stamp: L. 583 (Carl König)
• inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: Tiziano Vecellio
• inscription: former mount, black ink: TIZIANO VECELLIO / 1477 -- 1576
• inscription: former mount, verso, graphite: Landscape Veccellio
• inscription: former mount, verso, graphite: 1969.101 [underlined twice] -- Mitchell Bequest. / 12 1/2" x 22" / Unknown flemish 17th c. / "Landscape with a cluster of dwellings + / monasteries on the hill."
• inscription: mount, verso, lower left, graphite: 1,48a
• inscription: mount, verso, lower left, graphite: 212
• watermark: star, partially encircled
  
  Beta will not be made. Mount is too thick.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Carl König, Vienna (L. 583, with his mark). Austin A. Mitchell, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Austin Avery Mitchell

Accession Year

1969

Object Number

1969.101

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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