Coastal Landscape with Antique Ruins before a Town and Ships in the Distance

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1898.155
People: Sébastien Le Clerc the Elder, French (Metz 1637 - 1714 Paris)
Title: Coastal Landscape with Antique Ruins before a Town and Ships in the Distance
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Scene Along the Shore
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 17th-18th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/299433

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink

Dimensions

14.8 x 21.2 cm (5 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: margin: Seb. le Clerc

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Lindner collection. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

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: 1898.155
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), no. 591

Verification Level

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