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A drawing of a man gathering his sheep against a wall’s ruins

A drawing of a man gathering his sheep against a wall’s ruins. The man has a stick in his hand, the flock is sitting between a tree and a fallen log and a mid-size wall. Tall mountains are visible in the back of the drawing. The sky is cloudy, and it started to rain on the right side of the mountains

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2019.107
People
Isaac de Moucheron, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1667 - 1744 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
A Shepherd with His Flock Sheltering from a Storm among Antique Ruins
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1700
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/364015

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
Dimensions
20 × 31.2 cm (7 7/8 × 12 5/16 in.)
image: 15.2 × 22.5 cm (6 × 8 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: signed lower center, black ink: I. Moucheron. fecit
  • inscription: verso, upper left, in black ink: 10
  • watermark: center : Rampant lion in a circular shield

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Van den Brande collection, Middelburg [1], by descent; to E.C. Baron van Pallandt, Haarlem, sold [through Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, September 26, 1972, lot 358]. H.R. Bijl, The Hague, sold [through Sotheby's, Amsterdam, November 17, 1993, lot 31]; to Roger and Naomi Gordon, Boston, sold [through Sotheby's, New York, January 30, 2019, lot 106]; to Harvard Art Museums, 2019

Notes

[1] It is not clear whether Pieter van den Brande (167?-1718) and/or his son, Johan Pieter van den Brande I (1707-1758), formed the collection that descended to Baron van Pallandt (sale 1972). See Charles Dumas and Robert-Jan te Rijdt, "Kleur en Raffinement: Tekeningen uit de unicorno collectie," Zwolle, 1994, pp. 90-91.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William W. Robinson Fund
Accession Year
2019
Object Number
2019.107
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Andrea Busiri Vici, Andrea Locatelli e il paesaggio romano del Settecento, Ugo Bozzi Editore (Rome, Italy, 1976), pp. 201, 203, 288, repr. p. 203 as no. 248
  • Andrea Busiri Vici, "Fantasie Grafiche Romane d'Isaac de Moucheron", L'Urbe: rivista romana di storia, arte, lettere, costumanze (March -April 1981), vol. 2, pp. 63-65, pp. 64-64, repr. as fig. 9
  • 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), p. 270, cat. no. D101, repr. p. 80, pl. 47
  • William W. Robinson, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), p. 178
  • William W. Robinson and Susan Anderson, Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2016), pp. 207-9, 355, repr. p. 209, fig. 1
  • Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, January 30, 2019), lot 106, p. 152, repr.
  • Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 94-95, 231, repr. p. 97 as fig. 18

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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