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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1934.197
People
Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Dutch (The Hague, The Netherlands 1824 - 1903 The Hague, The Netherlands)
Title
A Bridge Scene in Holland
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1850-1895
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298268

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, gouache and touches of black colored pencil on cream wove paper
Dimensions
sight: 26.2 x 19.7 cm (10 5/16 x 7 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l. corner, brown watercolor: JH Weissenbruch f
  • inscription: verso, l.r., graphite? [still thin backing paper over it]: 1 (circled)
  • inscription: on frame, l.l, in graphite (?): C 6799 [Doll & Richards number from the label]
  • inscription: on frame, center left, graphite: gold no 29 [?] [Frame for 1934.204 has the same word]
  • label: formerly back of frame (now in file), inscribed in graphite with the stock number: DOLL & RICHARDS / Fine Art Dealers, / 2 PARK STREET, / BOSTON. [printed] / C 6799 [inscribed]
  • label: formerly back of frame (now in file), tan (discolored) label with decorative black border, in Bartlett sisters' hand (cf. correspondence in HUAM archives), brown ink: For The Boston / Museum of Fine Arts / from / Mary F. + Fannie Bartlett / 'A Bridge Seen (or Scene?) in Holland' / H Weissenbruch. [Four other works in our collection (from the Bartletts) have the same black-bordered label with inscription in the same handwriting: Blommers (1934.204), Israëls (1934.201, Mauve (1934.198), and Mesdag (1934.203). The label is probably related to an exhibition at the MFA in 1895. See In-house Notes.]
  • inscription: formerly back of frame (now in file), in unknown handwriting: Mary F. Bartlett / 227 Commonwelt (sic) Avenue
  • label: formerly back of frame (now in file), label darkened to brown (partly torn, printed and typed.: WEISSENBRUCH, Hendrik J. / Subject BRIDGE SCENE IN HOLLAND / o[?] / [Be]quest [obscured] Coll.

    [Same type of label as 1934.204. Parts have been torn off, so the heading "Boston Museum of Fine Arts" is not visible.]
  • inscription: on frame, l.l. edge, in graphite (?): C6799-2[?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Doll & Richards, Boston]. Mary F. and Fannie Bartlett, Boston, by 1895, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Mary F. and Fannie Bartlett Collection
Accession Year
1934
Object Number
1934.197
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 17

Exhibition History

  • New Acquisitions, Print Department, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/21/1895 - 11/01/1895
  • Dutch Water Colors of the 19th Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/19/1935 - 03/31/1935
  • The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights

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