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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.82
People
Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch (Dordrecht, Netherlands 1620 - 1691 Dordrecht, Netherlands)
Title
View of a Ploughed Field
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1639-1642
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/93990

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, black chalk, and a modified gum arabic on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
16.2 x 25.1 cm (6 3/8 x 9 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, lower right, black ink: AC
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: x 24 [or x JLZ]?
  • collector's mark: verso, bottom center, black ink: Dr A.S. [encircled] (Lugt 787, mark of Dr. August Sträter)
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Heimsoeth Collection. Dr. A. Sträter, Aix-en-Chappelle (Lugt 787), sold [through his sale, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, May 10-14, 1898, lot 1102]. [Otto and Anne Wertheimer, Basel and Paris, by 1949]. Private collection, Paris. [Artemis Fine Arts, Paris], sold; to George Abrams, Boston, 2003, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2024

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 Susan Abrams Medalie
Accession Year
2024
Object Number
2024.82
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. 171-172, 229, repr. p. 172 as fig. 6, detail repr. p. 173 as fig. 7 and fig. 8, detail repr. p. 177 as fig. 13

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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