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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.40
People
Daniel Dupré, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1751 - 1817 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
Vue Pres de Sala, dans le Duche de Parme
Other Titles
Alternate Title: View Near Sala in the Duchy of Parma
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1796
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312481

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown and gray ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in gray ink
Dimensions
26.1 × 33 cm (10 1/4 × 13 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Signed, verso, lower left, gray ink: Dl: Du Pré. delt: 1796.
  • inscription: verso, lower center, gray ink, French, in artist's hand: [same campaign as signature] Vuë près de Sala. Duché de Parme
  • watermark: IV [countermark]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right, purple and black ink, stamp and pen: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 122. (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College)
  • inscription: previous mat, curatorial file, red chak and graphite, French and English: [lower left, graphite:] 122 [lower left red chalk:] vue près de Sala, dans la Duché de parme. [lower right, red chalk:] D. du Pré 1796 [lower left, graphite:] this fine original, is from the Lindner Cabinet at Leipsic see Prof Frensel's catalogue no 713

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Richard Lindner, Leipzig. [1] [Johann Gottlieb Abraham Frenzel, Dresden?]. John Witt Randall, Boston, bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, Boston, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892 (L. 2130, verso, lower right); Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall, 1898.40

[1] As noted on original mat, in J. W. Randall's hand.

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
1898.40
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. 562, p. 293; vol. 2, repr. fig. 282, as Daniel Du Pré
  • Ingrid S. Brons, Grenzeloos goed: Tekeningen uit de Unicorno collectie, exh. cat., ed. Charles Dumas, Haags Historisch Museum (The Hague, Netherlands, 2001), under cat. no. 62, p. 121, note 8

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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