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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.208
People
Follower of Jan van Goyen, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1596 - 1656 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298663

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and graphite
Dimensions
actual: 13 x 17.8 cm (5 1/8 x 7 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, black chalk: Molyn
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 5 [encircled] 1/2
  • watermark: unidentified fragment; WR below coat of arms

    too fragmentary for beta radiography
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: No. 61.
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Molyn

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
1932.208
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. 510, p. 269
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 46, p. 11
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 120 ("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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