2000.292: Rustic Cottage with Seated Woman

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2000.292

People

Johann Georg Wille, German (Königsberg in Bayern, Germany 1715 - 1808 Paris, France)

Title

Rustic Cottage with Seated Woman

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1765

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/177220

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and brown ink, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in graphite and black and brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

18 x 26.3 cm (7 1/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
mount: 29.7 x 38.7 cm (11 11/16 x 15 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: bottom center, brown ink: J. G. Wille 1765
• inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: Dessin signe J. G Wille 1765
• inscription: mount, verso, upper right, brown ink, pen: [illegible, obscured by mount]
• inscription: mount, verso, upper right, red crayon: 2
• inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite, erased: no 20 / [illeg]
• inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: J. G WILLE 1765
• inscription: mount, lower center, black ink: J-G. Wille / 1765 [in decorated cartouche]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Roberta Olson and Alexander Johnson, New York, gift to HUAM, 2000.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson

Accession Year

2000

Object Number

2000.292

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Mounted. Framing line in black ink, over graphite.

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/26/2022 - 01/09/2023

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