1965.241: A Wooded Hillside

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.241

People

Circle of Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian (1606 - 1680)
Previously attributed to Claude Lorrain, French (Chamagne 1604 - 1682 Rome)

Title

A Wooded Hillside

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296440

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink with gray wash on blue antique laid paper

Dimensions

17.8 × 26.7 cm (7 × 10 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

William Esdaile, London (Lugt 2617). Argoutinsky-Dologoroukow. Vicomte Bernard d'Hendecourt, Paris [Sotheby's, London, May 8-10, 1929, no. 174]. Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA (by 1929), 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

1965.241

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Catalogue of the Very Choice and Valuable Collections of the Vicomte Bernard d'Hendecourt, auct. cat., Sotheby's, London (London, May 8-10, 1929), no. 174
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 575, fig. 292
• Osbert Sitwell, "The Magnasco Society", Apollo (May 1964), vol. 79, no. 27, pp. 378-390, p. 389, no. 37

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of Drawings by Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain (The Magnasco Society), Warren Gallery, 07/01/1928 - 07/31/1928
• An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Claude Lorrain, 1600-1682, Durlacher Brothers, 01/19/1938 - 02/12/1938

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