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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.155
People
Valentijn Klotz, Dutch (Maastricht(?), Netherlands c. 1650 - 1721 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
View of Aelzen, outside Brussels
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1674
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/188772

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash, and transparent watercolor on cream antique laid paper, laid down on an inlay mount, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
20.8 x 37.4 cm (8 3/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower left, brown ink, in artist's hand: Aelzen. by Brussel. de 5/14: 1674.
  • inscription: verso, lower right, red colored pencil and graphite: [red pencil] A [graphite] 03.
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: AB [underlined]
  • label: verso, lower right, red typewriter ink; graphite: [red ink] Nr 5 [graphite, over the typewritten letters] 4 [encircled]
  • inscription: Former mat, now in the possession of HAM, inside, lower center, blue ink: Exhibited Arts Council 1962 [underlined] Valentine Klotz [underlined] View of Brussels [in graphite:] (see verso) / Dated 5/14 1674.
  • inscription: Former mat, verso, upper right, graphite: Ser 394
  • inscription: Former mat, verso, upper center, graphite: 109 [encircled] / 110 [encircled and crossed out]
  • inscription: Former mat, verso, lower left, graphite: 22 x 16 1/8
  • inscription: Former mat, verso, lower right, black and gray ink: 391 / 729 [crossed out] / 626 [crossed out]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite, erased: V. K. / ... [illegible] / olsen fe
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Menno Hertzberger & Co., Amsterdam, 23 May 1940, lot 86], sold. Peiter de Boer, Amsterdam, 1945. Carl Robert Rudolf, London (L. 2811b, without his mark), 1955. Maida and George Abrams, Boston; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.155.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.155
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • C. R. Rudolf, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C. R. Rudolf, Arts Council of Great Britain, London (London, England, 1962), cat. no. 109, p. 22

Exhibition History

  • Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C. R. Rudolf, Arts Council Gallery, London, London, 01/05/1962 - 02/03/1962; City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 02/17/1962 - 03/11/1962; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, 03/17/1962 - 04/07/1962

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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