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Object Number

1965.219

People

Anthonie Waterloo, Dutch (Lille, France 1609 - 1690 Utrecht, Netherlands)

Title

A Forest at Twilight

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1675-1685

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296368

Medium

Black and white chalk, charcoal, and gray wash on blue antique laid paper, autograph framing line in charcoal; verso: test strokes in white chalk

Dimensions

28.3 x 23 cm (11 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
mount: 32.6 x 26.9 cm (12 13/16 x 10 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower left and lower right, black chalk: [lower left] 15 [lower right] 15
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: A78752[triangle] [not Colnaghi]
• collector's mark: verso, lower left, black ink, stamp: L. 1507 (John Postle Heseltine)
• inscription: mount, lower center, graphite: 8 7/16 10 3/4.
• inscription: mount, lower center, graphite: N 185 Waterloo
• inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: HVO
• inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: [illegible] P. J. S. / EXV
• inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: 16/8/60.
• inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite: A.WATERLOO
• inscription: former mount, graphite: Waterloo / Heseltine collection
• inscription: former mount, graphite: s [encircled] Paul Sachs / no. 542
• inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: HVO
• watermark: none

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.219

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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John Postle Heseltine, Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Dutch School in the Collection of J.P.H., Chiswick Press (London, England, 1910), cat. no. 36, n.p., repr.

Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 542, p. 284; vol. 2, repr. fig. 280

An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 59, p. 14

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

An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954

Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022

Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Visual description by Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Fellow, Division of European and American Art. Written and recorded March 2022.

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