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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.199
People
Copy after Nicolaes Berchem the Elder, Dutch (Haarlem, Netherlands 1620 - 1683 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
The Ferry
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296436

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in red chalk and framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
17.3 x 28.2 cm (6 13/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
mount: 32.6 x 42.5 cm (12 13/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, graphite strengthened with pen: Berghem
  • inscription: mount, lower center, brown ink: Nicholas Berghem / Born 1624 Died 1683
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: A 5272
  • inscription: mount, lower right, blind stamp: L. 970 (F. Abott)
  • watermark: none visible. Beta will not be made. No watermark is visible and mount is too thick.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
F. Abott, Edinburgh (L. 970, mount, lower right). [Christie's, London, 11 February 1929, part of lot 6], sold; to [P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 22 May 1929], sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 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
1965.199
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 495, p. 265, as Claes Berchem (?)
  • 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
  • Lisa Hall, "Counterproofs: An Investigation into the History, Materials, Techniques, and Uses of Red Chalk Counterproofs with an Examination of Other Methods of Copying" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, August 1990), Unpublished, pp. 1-62 passim
  • Annemarie Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850: Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gaßner, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, 2011), vol. 1, p. 100, under cat. no. 72 and p. 365, under cat. no. 629 (as copy after Berchem probably by Jan van der Meer II)

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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