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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.101
People
Isaac de Moucheron, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1667 - 1744 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
A Capriccio of Classical Buildings
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1743
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312442

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent watercolor and brown and gray ink over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, partial framing line in black ink
Dimensions
22.3 x 32.7 cm (8 3/4 x 12 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower center, brown ink: Moucheron Fecit 1743
  • inscription: verso, lower left, black ink: 1.
  • watermark: fragment of a coat of arms

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robert Reford, Montreal, sold; [Christie's, London, 26 November 1968, lot 38], sold; to [R.M. Light and Company, Santa Barbara, California], gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2005.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Light-Outerbridge Collection, Gift of Robert M. Light
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.101
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Earl Roger Mandle and J. W. Niemeijer, Dutch Masterpieces from the Eighteenth Century: Paintings and Drawings 1700 - 1800, exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, 1971), cat. no. 51, p. 69, repr. pl. 18
  • Nina Wedde, "Isaac de Moucheron (1677-1744): His Life and Works with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Drawings, Watercolors, Paintings, and Etchings", Peter Lang (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, 1996), cat. no. W182, pp. 425-6, repr. pl. 196

Exhibition History

  • Dutch Masterpieces from the Eighteenth Century: Paintings and Drawings 1700-1800, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 10/07/1971 - 11/14/1971; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 12/03/1971 - 01/30/1972; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 02/17/1972 - 03/19/1972

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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