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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.514
People
Balthasar Anton Dunker, Swiss (Saal, Germany 1746 - 1807 Bern)
Title
Idyllic Landscape
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Idyllische Landschaft
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1780
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/381005

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash, and garphite on off-white paper
Dimensions
sight: 40.3 × 39.5 cm (15 7/8 × 15 9/16 in.)
frame: 61 × 60.5 cm (24 × 23 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower center, black ink: Dunker. 1780.
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink stamp [?]: I. Grünling (curved along inner circle) [mostly faded or blended with marks of drawing; Lugt 1107]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Josef Grünling, Vienna (Lugt 1107). Heinrich Friedrich Samuel Haendcke, Radebul-Dresden (Lugt 1228a). Vinc. v. Berger, Vienna, sold [through Galerie Helbing, Munich, June 8, 1914, lot 886]. Wolf Stubbe, Hamburg. [Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, June 7, 2000, lot 151]. Private collection, Monaco. [August Laube, Zürich], sold; to Peter Soriano, New York, 2011, 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
2023.514
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alte Meister Graphik, Moderne Graphik, Alte Drucke, Zeichnungen, Schweizer Kunst der Romantik / Old Master Prints, Modern Prints, Rare Books, Drawings, Swiss Romantic Art, auct. cat., August Laube (Zürich, no date), p. 24, repr.
  • Joseph Grünling, Cabinet de J. Grünling: la partie des dessins originaux, état détaillé et raisonné des pièces qui la composent . . ., Antoine Pichler (Vienna, 1823), p. 53, cat no. 281
  • Auktion in München in der Galerie Helbing, Montag, den 8. Juni 1914 und folgende Tage; Kupferstiche, Radierungen, Schwarzkunstblätter . . . und Handzeichnungen alter Meister; aus dem Besitze der Frau Gräfin Quadt-Isny . . ., auct. cat., Galerie Helbing (Munich, 1914), p. 52, lot no. 886
  • Zeichnungen Alter Meister aus Deutschem Privatbesitz, exh. cat., Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg, October to November 1965), p. 27, cat no. 110
  • Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Graphik des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts, mit Teilen der Sammlung Wolf Stubbe, Hamburg und weiteren in- und ausländischen Sammlungsbeständen, auct. cat., Hauswedell & Nolte (Hamburg, June 7, 2000), p. 35, lot no. 151, repr. Tafel 38
  • S. Gessner, auct. cat., August Laube (Zürich, March 5-7, 2010), pp. 8 & 11, cat no. 8, repr.
  • Helvetica: Zeichnungen und Graphik, auct. cat., August Laube (Zürich, 2011), pp. 12, 14, cat. no. 19, repr. p. 12

Exhibition History

  • Zeichnungen Alter Meister aus Deutschem Privatbesitz, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 10/01/1965 - 10/31/1965
  • S. Gessner, Antiquariatsmesse Zürich, Zürich, 03/05/2010 - 03/07/2010; August Laube, Zurich, 03/08/2010 - 04/30/2010
  • Helvetica: Zeichnungen und Graphik, August Laube, Zurich, 10/22/2011 - 11/05/2011

Verification Level

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