1969.136: Mountain Landscape

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1969.136

People

Manner of Paul (Paulus) Bril, Flemish (Antwerp or Breda 1553/54 - 1626 Rome)

Title

Mountain Landscape

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296488

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink

Dimensions

43.3 x 33.8 cm (17 1/16 x 13 5/16 in.)
mount: 52.4 x 43 cm (20 5/8 x 16 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower right, brown ink: P Bril
• inscription: lower center, brown ink: 1582
• inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: P. Bril / EF
• inscription: mount, verso, lower center, graphite: No 49
• inscription: former mat, raised type print: Paul Bril 1554-1626 / Ex. Coll. Prince Bernhard von Sachsen-Meiningen
• inscription: former mat, ball point ink: signed and dated 1582
• inscription: former mat, ballpoint ink: D 410 [not Colnaghi]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Prince Bernhard von Sachsen-Meiningen, Germany. Austin A. Mitchell, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Austin Avery Mitchell

Accession Year

1969

Object Number

1969.136

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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