2023.629: Ruins in a Landscape

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2023.629

People

Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Dutch (Deventer, Netherlands 1598 - 1657 Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Title

Ruins in a Landscape

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1620s

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/365752

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

26.1 × 38.8 cm (10 1/4 × 15 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 136

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Duits Collection, London. [Thomas Williams Fine Art, London] sold; to George Abrams, 2016, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Gift of George Abrams in memory of Dr. Anthony S. Patton, Harvard College '54, Harvard Medical School '58

Accession Year

2023

Object Number

2023.629

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

• Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 126, 229, repr. p. 125 as fig. 2

Exhibition History

• Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022
• Pastoral on Paper, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 03/08/2025 - 06/15/2025

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level