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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.202
People
Cornelis Cort, Netherlandish (Hoorn, Netherlands 1533 - 1578 Rome, Italy)
Title
An Italian Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296365

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over touches of black chalk on off-white antique-laid paper, laid down
Dimensions
26.9 x 19.9 cm (10 9/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: Coert.
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower center, graphite: 4
  • watermark: none visible

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Christopher Head. [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (L. 2091, without his mark), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.202
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Campbell Dodgson, "Cornelis Cort, 'Italian Landscape'", Vasari Society (1910 - 1911), part VI, no. 18, no. 18, repr.
  • Dr. Ludwig Burchard, [Unidentified article], Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Ulrich Thieme, E. A. Seemann (Leipzig, Germany, 1912), vol. 7, p. 475, p. 475
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 491, p. 259; vol. 2, repr. fig. 255
  • J.C.J. Bierens de Haan, L'oeuvre gravé de Cornelis Cort, graveur hollandais 1533-1578, Martinus Nijhoff (The Hague, 1948), p. 225, no. 1
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 40, p. 10
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), p. 206
  • Staatliche Museen Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. als Zeichner, exh. cat., Verlag Gebr. Mann (Berlin, 1975), pp. 119-120, cat. no. 151, fig. 203, repr.
  • Lukas Nonner, "Cornelis Cort as a Landscape Draftsman", Master Drawings (Spring 2019), vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 53-70, pp. 53, 54, 59, 68 note 24, fig. 1

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954
  • Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. als Zeichner, Staatliche Museen Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 09/19/1975 - 11/16/1975

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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