1965.219: A Forest at Twilight

Identification and Creation

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

Physical Descriptions

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

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

John Postle Heseltine, London (L. 1507, with his mark). [Frederick Keppel & Co., New York], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (without his mark), by 1933, 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

1965.219

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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• An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat.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
• Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 98-100, 177, 233, repr. p. 99 as fig. 20

Exhibition History

• 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

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Related Media

• 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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