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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.204
People
Karel La Fargue, Dutch (Voorburg, Netherlands 1738 - 1793 The Hague, Netherlands)
Copy after Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch (Dordrecht, Netherlands 1620 - 1691 Dordrecht, Netherlands)
Title
Cows in a Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
after 1767
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298662

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and red chalk counterproof, strengthened with charcoal and incised, on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
actual: 23 x 34.3 cm (9 1/16 x 13 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Arms of Amsterdam with countermark, I MALRVSIE / FIN / PERIGORD / 1742 [the Dernier papermill in Couze, near Bergerac and Perigord, France, see Gaudriault, p. 239]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, blue ink, stamp: L. 2926 (Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt)
  • inscription: lower right, black chalk: [illegible, cut of at lower margin]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: a / x

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt, Berlin (L. 2926, with his mark), not in his sale, [F.A.C. Prestel, Frankfort am Main, 4-5 October 1917]. Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, 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
1932.204
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. 547, p. 289, as Dutch School, 18th century
  • Charles Dumas and Michiel C. Plomp, "Karel la Fargue (1738-1793) as a forger of seventeenth-century Dutch drawings", Oud Holland (1998), vol. 112, no. 1, pp. 1-76, cat. no. 27, p. 32, repr.
  • 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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