Harvard Art Museums > 1962.39: Three Studies of a Cow Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Three Studies of a Cow (Jan van Goyen) , 1962.39,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 23, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/297023. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1962.39 People Jan van Goyen, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1596 - 1656 The Hague, Netherlands) Title Three Studies of a Cow Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1650 Culture Dutch Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/297023 Location Location Level 2, Room 2300, European Art, 17th–19th century, Seventeenth–Century Dutch and Flemish Art View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Black chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black chalk Dimensions 9.6 x 15.6 cm (3 3/4 x 6 1/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: upper right, brown wash: 150 watermark: unidentified fragment with B below Provenance Recorded Ownership History Possibly Andrew Geddes, A.R.A., London; his sale [Christie and Manson, London, 8 April 1845, lot 361?]. Possibly on loan; to Mauritshuis, The Hague. Mr. Johnson Neale. T. Mark Hovell, London, 1918. [Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1981, lot 124], sold; to [P. & D. Colnaghi, London]. A.W.M. Mensing, Amsterdam, his sale; [Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 29 April 1937, lot 218], sold; to Otto Hirschman, sold; to A. Mayer, The Hague and New York. van Dieman-Lilienfeld Gallery, 1957, sold; to Marian Harris Phinney, 1960, 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 1962.39 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Davaco Publishers (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1972 - 1987), Vol. 1, no. 847/240B The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no. 9 Miriam Stewart, "Curating Sketchbooks: Interpretation, Preservation, Display", Recto Verso: Redefining the Sketchbook, ed. Angela Bartram, Nader El-Bizri, and Douglas Gittens, Ashgate Publishing (Surrey, England and Burlington, VT, 2014), 163-175, p. 169 and repr. as fig. 12.3 Exhibition History The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/04/1981 Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/24/2024 - 02/10/2025 Subjects and Contexts Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
