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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.122
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Cow Facing Left
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Ruminative Cow
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298875

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
12.2 x 18.6 cm (4 13/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
mount: 27 x 35.4 cm (10 5/8 x 13 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, lower left, graphite: 411 [encircled]
  • inscription: lower left, graphite: A Cuyp inv et del.
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: from James Rigger thro Evans of London / a fine specimen
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: 48
  • inscription: mount, lower right, brown ink: Cuyp
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: E
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 8-6 [or b?]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, purple ink stamp and brown ink: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 85. (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College)
  • watermark: none visible

    Beta will not be made. paper is inaccessible.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
James Rigger; to [R. H. Evans, London]; to, John Witt Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1892.

NOTE: Provenance is from an inscription believed to be in Randall's hand.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.122
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. 548, pp. 289-90

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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