Two Horses | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1898.101
People: Jakob Philipp Hackert, German (Prenzlau 1737 - 1807 Florence)
Title: Two Horses
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th century
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/312394

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions: 25.3 x 20 cm (9 15/16 x 7 7/8 in.)

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: 1898.101
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. 410
Ernst Scheyer, "German Paintings and Drawings from the Time of Goethe in American Collections", The Art Quarterly (Summer 1949), vol. XII, no. 3, pp. 231-250, no. 44
Claudia Nordhoff and Hans Reimer, Jakob Philipp Hackert 1737-1807: Verzeichnis seiner Werke, Akademie Verlag (Berlin, Germany, 1994), no. 1138

Exhibition History

19th-Century German Drawings and Watercolors, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1981 - 08/31/1981

Verification Level

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1898.101: Two Horses