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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.192
People
Jan van Goyen, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1596 - 1656 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
Peaked Roof Building
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298593

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and gray wash, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper; figures at lower left and wash in sky at upper left are later additions
Dimensions
actual: 13.4 x 13.4 cm (5 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink, pen: J v Goÿen.
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Ams. [crossed out] / The Hague 1901 / ml fl.
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: H [encircled] 1/2
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 151
  • inscription: former mount, graphite: v Goyen himself
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, acquired in The Hague, 1901, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.192
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 508, p. 269, as follower of Jan van Goyen
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 45, p. 11 (as Follower of Van Goyen, possibly Simon Vlieger)
  • Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Davaco Publishers (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1972 - 1987), vol. 1, no. 794
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 119 ("Cartella con due stelle d'oro")

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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