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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.64
People
Justus van Huysum the Younger, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1685 - 1707 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
A Scene in a Camp
Other Titles
Alternate Title: People Dancing in a Soldier's Camp
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312469

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk over graphite on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink over red chalk
Dimensions
actual: 12.3 x 16.1 cm (4 13/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: red chalk, bottom center: Justus Van Huysum [?] de yonge [?] [lower edge cut]
  • inscription: former mount, graphite: von Quandt Cabinet / Schöne Zeichnung / J Young fecit / Hobbema inv
  • inscription: former mat, graphite: Cab: Ed: Goeje / Justus v. Huijsum f. / de Jonghe / WmDdi. 2272di. [crossed out] / 2502. di
  • inscription: former mat, brown ink: Just. v. Hÿsum fec.
  • inscription: former mat, verso, graphite: [illegible] f/u bi / 93
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, purple ink stamp and brown ink: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 401 (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College)
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Pieter de Goeje, Haarlem, (as per inscription on old mount) not in his sale of 14-17 May 1888. Baron Johann Gottlob von Quandt, Leipzig, not in his sales of 12 June 1860 and 1 October 1860; to John Witt Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, by bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, 1892, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 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
1898.64
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. 561, pp. 292-93, as Justus van Huysum the Second

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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