Country Landscape with Two Men on Horseback

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1898.182
People: Johann Christoph Dietzsch, German (1710 - 1769)
Title: Country Landscape with Two Men on Horseback
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th century
Culture: German
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/299483

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and brown ink, gray and brown wash, and white gouache on blue antique laid paper

Dimensions

sight: 17.3 x 24.8 cm (6 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r., white gouache: J.C.D.
inscription: on mount, graphite: Joh Christ Dietsch Fecit / from the collection of M. Lindner / professor of Philosophy at Leipsic / 450 / J.C. Dietsch Follower of Waterloo/ g/l [?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Lindner, Leipzig; John Witt Randall, Boston, MA; bequest to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892; gift to Harvard University, 1892.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year: 1898
Object Number: 1898.182
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

William W. Robinson, "John Witt Randall: An Early American Collector of Later German Drawings", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2001), vol. 39, no. 2, Summer, pp. 159-168, fig. 5, p. 162

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