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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2004.89
People
Jacob Cats, Dutch (Altona, Germany 1741 - 1799 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
A Wooded, Hilly Landscape with Herders
Other Titles
Alternate Title: A Wooded, Hilly Landscape with Herders Driving their Flocks Towards a Stream, and a Seated Woman Nursing a Child
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1783
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/193566

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown and black ink and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
16.6 x 24.4 cm (6 9/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, lower left, brown ink: J: Cats inv et fec / 1783 [underlined]
  • inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: No 11 / 34 1/2 41 1/2 / P. P. bleuté 66 / Biseau or et teinte / avec ouverture derriere / pour la signature
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 12
  • label: back of mat, ink on adhesive paper, typewriter: Auction label: 101-305230 Item 13 / Sotheby's London / Item 13 Landscape w/Herders
  • label: back of mat, ink on orange adhesive paper, inscription: inscription on label (under the heading "Receipt & Item No.) reads: M197312/13.
    N.b.: the number 13 is the same as the Sotheby's item number on another label fixed to the back of the same mat.
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Adolf Schwarz, Amstelveen, by 1968. [Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 10 November 1998, lot 118], sold; to [Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario], long-term loan; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2004.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Hope and Julian Edison
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
2004.89
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • J. W. Niemeijer, De Verzameling van A. Schwarz, exh. cat., Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1968), cat. no. 27

Exhibition History

  • De Verzameling van A. Schwarz, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 09/01/1968 - 12/31/1968

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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