1.2018.150: Seascape with House on Left Bank

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1.2018.150

People

Abraham Rutgers, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1632 - 1699 Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Title

Seascape with House on Left Bank

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/183522

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink

Dimensions

10.1 x 20.6 cm (4 x 8 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, center, red chalk: AvB . n 27 [underlined]
• inscription: verso, center, graphite: Sx
• inscription: label from old backing board, now removed, graphite and brown ink: No 1 / From a sketchbook by / de oude RUTGERS / (Amsterdam c. 1700) / identified by Dr. H. de Groot

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Lodewijk Arnold Houthakker, Amsterdam; to George S. and Maida Abrams, Boston

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Promised Gift

Accession Year

2018

Object Number

1.2018.150

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Peter C. Sutton and William W. Robinson, Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Bruce Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2011), p. 182, no. A27, repr.

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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