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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
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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

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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