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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.27
People
Allart van Everdingen, Dutch (Alkmaar, Netherlands 1621 - 1675 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
A Castle by a River Estuary
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296607

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray ink and gray wash and graphite on cream antique laid paper possibly prepared with light brown wash, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
15.7 x 27.1 cm (6 3/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
mount: 20.3 x 34.7 cm (8 x 13 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, grey wash: AVE
  • collector's mark: former mat, purple ink, stamp: [unidentified; a crested shield with horse]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, black ink, stamp: unidentified [illegible, although probably L. 618, unidentified collector)
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: mze.
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: sale 1818 [? illegible; cut off]
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 2 [encircled] / 12 5/8 x 8 1/8
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right: Everdingen

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Unidentified Collector (illegible mark, although perhaps L. 618, unidentified collector). J. Rump, Copenhagen, sold; [Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin, 25-27 May 1908, lot 177]. Prince of Liechtenstein. [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, published in May, 1953 catalogue, no. 42]. Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York. Marian Harris (Mrs. Charles W.) Phinney, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Marian H. Phinney
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.27
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Five Centuries of Drawings, exh. cat., The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, Canada, 1953), cat. no. 140, n.p.
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 55, n.p., pl. 55, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Five Centuries of Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Montreal, 10/01/1953 - 11/30/1953
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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