- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1951.130
- People
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)
- Title
- View of Mariakerk in Utrecht from the South
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: View of Mariakirche in Utrecht from the South
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1652
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297050
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Brown ink and later gray wash and later touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper, prepared with a brownish-gray wash [?], framing line in brown ink
- Dimensions
- actual: 11.3 x 18.7 cm (4 7/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- collector's mark: verso, lower left, brown ink, stamp: L. 561 (Cornelis Hofstede de Groot)
- collector's mark: verso, lower left, black ink, stamp: L. 2926 (Rudolf P. Goldschmidt)
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: TGsoz
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 41
- watermark: none
- Provenance
- William Mitchell, Eastbourne (L. 2638, without his mark), his sale; [F. A. C. Prestel, Frankfurt am Main, 7 May 1890, possibly lot 87]. Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt, Berlin (L. 2926, with his mark), sold; [F. A. C. Prestel, Frankfurt (L. 2730), 4-11 October 1917, lot 476]. Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, The Hague (L. 561, with his mark), sold, [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 4 November 1931, lot 181]; sold; to Charles P. Curtis, Boston through unidentified agent, by descent; to Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Curtis, Brookline, Massachusetts; Holman's Print Shop, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1951.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Kelsey S. McDonald Fund
- Accession Year
- 1951
- Object Number
- 1951.130
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Otto Benesch, Rembrandt Werk und Forschung, Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Vienna, 1935), p. 57
An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 50, p. 12
Felice Stampfle and Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY, 1960), cat. no. 53, pp. 40-41, repr. pl. 45, fig. 53
Alice I. Davies, "Rembrandt's Landscape Drawings" (unpublished manuscript, Harvard University, April 1, 1965). Unpublished honors paper under the author's maiden name, Alice G. Ingraham., vol. 1, pp. 71-72, 77, 79, repr. vol. 2, fig. 84
Seymour Slive, "Rembrandt at Harvard", Apollo (June 1978), vol. 107, no. 196, pp. 452-463, p. 457, repr. p. 459, fig. 11
Martin Royalton-Kisch, Drawings by Rembrandt and his circle in the British Museum, British Museum Press (London, 1992), under cat. no. 81, p. 171
Catalogue of Drawings by Rembrandt and his School in the British Museum, website, British Museum, 2010, under cat. no. 82
Peter Schatborn and Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt: The Complete Drawings and Etchings, Taschen (Cologne, 2019), cat. no. D602, p. 383, repr.
Achim Gnann, Rembrandt: Landschaftszeichnungen, Landscape Drawings, Michael Imhof Verlag (Petersberg, Germany, 2021), pp. 226-29, repr. p. 227, fig. 208
- Exhibition History
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An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954
Rembrandt: A Selection of his Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/18/1984 - 12/11/1984
Rembrandt and His School: Drawings from the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 12/02/1989 - 01/28/1990
Rembrandt Prints & Drawings, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, 11/05/2008 - 12/14/2008
- Subjects and Contexts
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Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
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