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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.194
People
Valentijn Klotz, Dutch (Maastricht(?), Netherlands c. 1650 - 1721 The Hague, Netherlands)
Josua de Grave, Dutch (c. 1712)
Title
Near Bodegraven, in the Prince's Quarter
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
September 2, 1672
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298659

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent watercolor, black chalk, gray wash, and brown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
12.2 x 19.1 cm (4 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper left, brown ink: Int Prinssen quartier. de. 9/2 1672.
  • inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: 11 [encircled]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: J. de Grave.
  • watermark: fragment, possibly Arms of Amsterdam
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: es--
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Amsterdam 1901. / [pound sign] i-

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, acquired in Amsterdam, 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
1932.194
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. 512, p. 270, as Josua de Grave (?)
  • M. H. Breitbarth-Van der Stock, "Josua de Grave, Valentine Klotz en Barnardus Klotz", Bulletin van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Oudheidkundige Bond (1969), vol. 68, pp. 93-115, p. 102 as Josua de Grave (?)
  • 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")

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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