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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.228
People
Gillis Neyts, Flemish (Ghent, Belgium 1623 - 1687 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
Harbor Scene
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Flemish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296477

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on parchment, partial brown ink framing line at lower right corner, laid down on mount
Dimensions
16 x 22.4 cm (6 5/16 x 8 13/16 in.)
mount: 24.5 x 29 cm (9 5/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, brown ink: gillis. nÿts. fe.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., New York, New York], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091, without his mark), 1946, 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
1965.228
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, ed., One Hundred Master Drawings, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1949), p. 96, repr.
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 36, p. 8
  • 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. 207
  • Pierre Gustot, Gillis Neyts: Un paysagiste brabançon en vallée Mosane au XVIIe siècle, Société archéologique de Namur (Namur, 2008), p. 132, fig. 74, cat. D5, repr.

Exhibition History

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

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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