1932.176: A Rocky Landscape; verso: Study of Rocks

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.176

People

Circle of Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Dutch (Deventer, Netherlands 1598 - 1657 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Previously attributed to Claude Lorrain, French (Chamagne 1604 - 1682 Rome)

Title

A Rocky Landscape; verso: Study of Rocks

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298333

Location

Location

Level 2, Room 2400, European Art, 17th century, Rome and Its Influence in the Seventeenth Century

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Physical Descriptions

Medium

Two tones of brown ink over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink over graphite

Dimensions

12.6 x 17.1 cm (4 15/16 x 6 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Notes:
In a diary entry from Paris, France dated February 28, 1909, Charles A. Loeser states that he purchased a work by Claude from “Lippmann.” This entry almost certainly refers to this drawing, but the identity of Lippmann is unknown.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.176

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 577, fig. 294
• Marcel Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, University of California Press (Berkeley, 1968), vol. 1 p. 436 (as circle of Bartolomeus Breenbergh)
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), pp. 105-106 cat. no. 46, repr. p. 105
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 119 ("Cartella con quattro stelle nere")

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/05/2024 - 12/16/2024

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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