Harvard Art Museums > 1.2018.187: A Farmhouse in the Trees Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"A Farmhouse in the Trees (Jan van de Velde II) , 1.2018.187,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 24, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/76987. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1.2018.187 People Jan van de Velde II, Dutch (Rotterdam(?), Netherlands 1593 - 1641 Enkhuizen, Netherlands) Title A Farmhouse in the Trees Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1620 Culture Dutch Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/76987 Physical Descriptions Medium Brown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, squared and numbered for transfer in black chalk, partial framing line in brown ink Dimensions 15.9 x 20.3 cm (6 1/4 x 8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: Recto, upper right, graphite: Autumnus collector's mark: recto, bottom center, stamped in black ink: J.C.S. [Lugt 1434, mark of Johan Conrad Spengler] watermark: none Provenance Recorded Ownership History Johan Conrad Spengler, Copenhagen. [Sotheby's London, 9 April 1970, lot 71] sold; to [John Baskett, London], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1970 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift Accession Year 2018 Object Number 1.2018.187 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 Exhibition of Old Master and English Drawings, auct. cat. (London, 1970), n.p., cat. no. 14, repr. Franklin W. Robinson, ed., Things of this World: A Selection of Dutch Drawings from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, 1972), cat. 23, pp. 12 and 63, repr. p. 40 Curtis O. Baer, ed., Seventeenth Century Dutch Landscape Drawings and Selected Prints from American Collections, exh. cat., Vassar College Art Gallery (Poughkeepsie, NY, 1976), cat. 10, pp. 14 and 30-31, repr. Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 126-127, 232, repr. p. 127 as fig. 3 Exhibition History Things of this World: A Selection of Dutch Drawings from the Collection of Maida and George Abrams, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 10/31/1972 - 02/25/1973 Seventeenth Century Dutch Landscape Drawings and Selected Prints from American Collections, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, 03/28/1976 - 05/07/1976 Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022 Subjects and Contexts Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
