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Object Number

1934.197

People

Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Dutch (The Hague, The Netherlands 1824 - 1903 The Hague, The Netherlands)

Title

A Bridge Scene in Holland

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

19th century

Culture

Dutch

Medium

Watercolor, gouache and touches of black colored pencil on cream wove paper

Dimensions

sight: 26.2 x 19.7 cm (10 5/16 x 7 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l. corner, brown watercolor: JH Weissenbruch f
• inscription: verso, l.r., graphite? [still thin backing paper over it]: 1 (circled)
• inscription: on frame, l.l, in graphite (?): C 6799 [this is the Doll & Richards number from the label]
• inscription: on frame, center left, graphite: gold no 29" [?] [1934.204 Blommers, "Frugal Meal" frame has the same word"
• label: formerly back of frame (now in file), inscribed in graphite with the stock number: DOLL & RICHARDS / Fine Art Dealers / 2 PARK STREET, / BOSTON [printed] / C 6799 [inscribed]
• label: formerly back of frame (now in file), tan (discolored) label with decorative black border, in Bartlett sisters' hand (cf. correspondence in HUAM archives), brown ink: For The Boston / Museum of Fine Arts / from / Mary F. + Fannie Bartlett / 'A Bridge Seen (or Scene?) in Holland' / H Weissenbruch. [Four other works in our collection (from the Bartletts) have the same black-bordered label with inscription in the same handwriting: Blommers (1934.204), Israëls (1934.201, Mauve (1934.198), and Mesdag (1934.203). The label is probably related to an exhibition at the MFA in 1895. See In-house Notes.]
• inscription: formerly back of frame (now in file), in unknown handwriting: Mary F. Bartlett / 227 Commonwelt (sic) Avenue
  
• label: formerly back of frame (now in file), label darkened to brown (partly torn, printed and typed.: WEISSENBRUCH, Hendrik J. / Subject BRIDGE SCENE IN HOLLAND / o[?] / [B]quest [obscured] Coll. [This is the same type of label as the Blommers, Frugal Meal. Parts have been torn off, so the heading Boston Museum of Fine Arts (as in the Blommers label) is not visible.]
• inscription: on frame, l.l. edge, in graphite (?): C6799-2[?]

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Mary F. and Fannie Bartlett Collection

Accession Year

1934

Object Number

1934.197

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 17

New Acquisitions, Print Department, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/21/1895 - 11/01/1895

Dutch Water Colors of the 19th Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/19/1935 - 03/31/1935

The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990

Collection Highlights

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