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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.40
People
Jan van Goyen, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1596 - 1656 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
Landscape with Cottages and Figures
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1650
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297024

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 9.7 x 15.8 cm (3 13/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper left, black chalk: n
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: upper right, brown wash: 240

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Andrew Geddes, A.R.A., London; his sale [Christie and Manson, London, 8 April 1845, lot 361?]. Possibly loan to, Mauritshuis, The Hague. Mr. Johnson Neale. T. Mark Hovell, London, 1918. [Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1981, lot 124], sold; to [P. & D. Colnaghi, London]. A.W.M. Mensing, Amsterdam, his sale; [Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 29 April 1937], sold; to Otto Hirschman, sold; to A. Mayer, The Hague and New York. Van Dieman-Lilienfeld Gallery, 1957, sold; to Marian Harris Phinney, 1960, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Marian H. Phinney
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.40
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Davaco Publishers (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1972 - 1987), Vol. 1, no. 847/240B, repr.
  • The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no. 10
  • Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 41-43, 230, repr. p. 43 as fig. 8

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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