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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.142
People
Jan van Goyen, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1596 - 1656 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
River Scene with Ships
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1640s
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/188635

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and later brown wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
9.5 x 15.5 cm (3 3/4 x 6 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: fragment of an eagle with Basel crozier, double-headed

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Herbert Feist, New York], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1964; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.142.

NOTE: Provenance information from George Abrams, by recall.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.142
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Franklin W. Robinson, Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, MA, 1969), cat. 48, p. xi, repr.
  • Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Davaco Publishers (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1972 - 1987), vol. 1, cat. no. 657a, p. 215
  • Curtis O. Baer, ed., Seventeenth Century Dutch Landscape Drawings and Selected Prints from American Collections, exh. cat., Vassar College Art Gallery (Poughkeepsie, NY, 1976), cat. no. 22, pp. 14 and 41, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Selections from the Collection of Dutch Drawings of Maida and George Abrams, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, 03/27/1969 - 04/28/1969; Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, 05/04/1969 - 06/04/1969; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 09/17/1969 - 10/12/1969; University of Connecticut Museum of Art, Storrs, 10/18/1969 - 11/16/1969
  • Seventeenth Century Dutch Landscape Drawings and Selected Prints from American Collections, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, 03/28/1976 - 05/07/1976
  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006
  • 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/24/2024 - 02/10/2025

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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