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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.518
People
Johann Rudolf Koller, Swiss (Zürich 1828 - 1905 Zürich)
Title
Study of a Wooded Hillside near Weesen
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Bewaldete Hangstudie bei Weesen
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1852
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/381009

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on paper with off-white coating
Dimensions
sight: 32 × 47 cm (12 5/8 × 18 1/2 in.)
frame: 52 × 66 cm (20 1/2 × 26 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: K [possibly RK combined, with R backwards] 1852 / Weesen

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Galerie Fischer, Lucerne and Robert Pfisterer, Zürich, May 5, 1934, lot 1214]. Angela Muhrer, Zürich. [August Laube, Zürich], sold; to Peter Soriano, New York, 2012, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter F. Soriano ’81 in honor of Joachim Homann
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.518
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Grosse Auktion in Zürich, auct. cat., Galerie Fischer and Kunstsalon Dr. Pfisterer (Lucerne, May 2-5, 1934), p. 89, lot no. 1214
  • Zeichnungen / Drawings, auct. cat., August Laube (Zürich, 2012), pp. 86-87, cat no. 56, repr.

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