2023.642: The Kamperbuitenpoort in Amersfoort

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2023.642

People

Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch (Haarlem 1628/29 - 1682 Amsterdam)

Title

The Kamperbuitenpoort in Amersfoort

Other Titles

Former Title: Riverbank with Cottages, a Drawbridge, and Two Towers
Former Title: River Landscape

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1650

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/212434

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk on beige antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink and partial framing line in black chalk

Dimensions

14.2 x 20 cm (5 9/16 x 7 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: verso, lower right, blue ink: M G A [in monogram] [Lugt 3306, mark of Maida and George Abrams]
• inscription: Verso, lower left, graphite: cnn (?)
• inscription: Verso, bottom center, black chalk: Ruysdael fec [?]
• inscription: verso, center right, above and below the "x," in very faint graphite: [indecipherable]
• watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Private collection, Switzerland. [Claude Kuhn, Basel], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (Lugt 3306), 1992, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

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 Professor Seymour Slive

Accession Year

2023

Object Number

2023.642

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Seymour Slive, "Additions to Jacob van Ruisdael. II", The Burlington Magazine (1995), 137, pp. 452-457, pp. 452, 454, 455, fig. 47
• Jeroen Giltaij, "Further Additions to Jacob van Ruisdael", Shop Talk: Studies in Honor of Seymour Slive, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., 1995), pp. 87, 88, 312, fig. 2
• Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2001), cat. no. D28, repr.
• William W. Robinson, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), pp. 164-165, cat. no. 69, repr. p. 165
• Annemarie Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850: Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gaßner, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, 2011), vol. 2, p. 483, under cat. no. 896
• Laurens Schoemaker, Jacob van Ruisdael tekent de Kamperbuitenpoort in Amersfoort, Connoisseurship: Essays in Honour of Fred G. Meijer (Leiden, 2020)
• Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 45, 232, repr. p. 46 as fig. 12

Exhibition History

• Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, British Museum, London, 06/13/2002 - 09/22/2002; Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 10/10/2002 - 12/08/2002; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/22/2003 - 07/06/2003
• Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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