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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.165
People
Roelant Roghman, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1627 - 1692 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
A Rocky Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1660-1669
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/198737

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown and gray wash over black chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, lined and drum mounted
Dimensions
15 x 22.9 cm (5 7/8 x 9 in.)
mount: 22.4 x 29.9 cm (8 13/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Brown ink, lower right: R Roghman
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 33
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, brown ink, stamp: L. 611c (Curt Otto)
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite, erased: D3066TRXX
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite, erased: A5...[illegible]
  • label: former mount, typed label, upper left: 17TH C. DUTCH LANDSCAPE DRAWINGS / Arthur M. Sackler Museum; 2/20/88 - 4/3/88 / Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; 4/15/88 - 5/29/88 / cat #77 / ROELANT ROGHMAN / Mountainous Landscape [underlined] / 17th Century Dutch Drawing / 5-7/8 x 9 in. / The Abrams Collection
  • label: former mount, printed label, upper center: UF-3 Plexiglas / Do Not Tape
  • label: former mount, typed and inscribed label, center: HOPKINS CENTER ART GALLERIES / DARTMOUTH COLLEGE . HANOVER, N.H. 03755 / Exhibition 100 Master Drawings - / No. 16 Date 9-73 to 1-74
  • label: former mount, printed and typed label, lower center: WADSWORTH ATHENEUM / HARTFORD, CONN. / No. T.L.58.1973 / Artist Roghman / title Mountainous Landscape / Owner Mr. George S. Abrams / 100 Master Drawings from New England / Private Collections / Sept. 5 - Oct. 14, 1973
  • inscription: former mount, on brown paper, lower center, graphite: 58.1973
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: verso, lower left, blue ink stamp: L. 3306 (Maida and George Abrams)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Curt Otto, Leipzig (L. 611c, verso, lower left), sold; [C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 7 November 1929, lot 115.] [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London] sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (L. 3306, without their mark); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.165.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.165
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Franklin W. Robinson, One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, exh. cat. (Hanover, NH, 1973), cat. no. 16, pp. 13 and 46-47, repr.
  • Frederik J. Duparc, Landscape in Perspective: Drawings by Rembrandt and his Contemporaries, exh. cat., The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, 1988), cat. no. 77, p. 186, repr. and repr. color p. 43, fig. 77
  • Frederik J. Duparc, "[Review] Collectie Abrams in Rijksprentenkabinet", Tableau (1991), vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 40-42, p. 41
  • William W. Robinson, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., H. O. Zimman, Inc. (Lynn, MA, 1991), cat. no. 62, pp. 142-3, repr.
  • William W. Robinson, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), under cat. no. 66, p. 262 (n. 2), repr. p. 158, fig. 1
  • 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), Addendum no. A24, pp. 11 and 180, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Old Master and English Drawings, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 01/01/1969 - 12/31/1969
  • One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 09/05/1973 - 10/14/1973; Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Hanover, 10/26/1973 - 12/03/1973; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/14/1973 - 01/25/1974
  • Landscape in Perspective: Drawings by Rembrandt and his Contemporaries, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/20/1988 - 04/03/1988; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 04/15/1988 - 05/29/1988
  • Seventeenth-Century Dutch Drawings: A Selection from the Maida and George Abrams Collection, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 02/23/1991 - 04/18/1991; Albertina Gallery, Vienna, 05/16/1991 - 06/30/1991; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 01/22/1992 - 04/22/1992; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/10/1992 - 12/06/1992
  • 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/09/2015 - 09/10/2015

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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