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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.506
People
Johann Jakob Aschmann, Swiss (Thalwil, Switzerland 1747 - 1809 Thalwil, Switzerland )
Title
View of Thalwil
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Vue de Thalweil
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th-19th century
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/380996

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on off-white paper
Dimensions
sight: 25.5 × 41.8 cm (10 1/16 × 16 7/16 in.)
frame: 53.3 × 68.6 cm (21 × 27 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, lower center, brown ink: Vue de Thalweil Paÿsage auprés du Lac de Zuric. d'aprés la Nature
  • inscription: mount, lower right, brown ink: Par J. Aschmann

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Koller Auktionen, Zürich, March 30, 2012, lot 3401]. [August Laube, Zürich], sold; to Peter Soriano, New York, 2013, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter F. Soriano ’81
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.506
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gemälde Alter Meister, Gemälde des 19. Jh., Zeichnungen, Alte Graphik, auct. cat., Koller (Zurich, March 30, 2012), lot 3401
  • Alte Meister Graphik, Moderne Graphik, Alte Drucke, Zeichnungen, Helvetica / Old Master Prints, Modern Prints, Rare Books, Drawings, Helvetica, auct. cat., August Laube (Zürich, 2013), p. 27, cat no. 22, repr.

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