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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.106
People
Franz Kobell, German (Mannheim 1749 - 1822 Munich)
Title
Classical Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th-19th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312448

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown wash and graphite on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
33.4 × 46.7 cm (13 1/8 × 18 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: fleur-de-lis in a shield (Mongan-Sachs W. 46)
  • inscription: verso, right, ink: No. 96
  • inscription: verso, left, ink: Capital Zeichnung des Meister F
  • inscription: verso, graphite: franz Kobell j.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
1898.106
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. 419
  • 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. 79
  • William W. Robinson, Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), checklist no. 13
  • William W. Robinson, "John Witt Randall: An Early American Collector of Later German Drawings", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2001), vol. 39, no. 2, Summer, pp. 159-168, fig. 4, p. 162

Exhibition History

  • German Paintings and Drawings from the Time of Goethe in American Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 11/17/1949 - 12/15/1949
  • Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/04/1998 - 06/28/1998
  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/29/2024 - 09/16/2024

Verification Level

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