1965.199: The Ferry

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

Permissions

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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of Copying" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, August 1990), Unpublished, pp. 1-62 passim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

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