1999.149: A Shepherd and His Flock amidst Ruins
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1999.149
- People
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Gerrit de Heer, Dutch (probably Leeuwarden 1606 - 1652 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Title
- A Shepherd and His Flock amidst Ruins
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1630-1649
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/212742
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Brown ink and brown wash on parchment, framing line in dark brown ink
- Dimensions
- 26.7 x 24.5 cm (10 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Right center on fence, brown ink: G. de Heer
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: W [underlined] C. [?]
- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Coll.
- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite, partially erased: ...(489... ... L. 2095
- collector's mark: verso, lower right, blue ink stamp: L. 2095 (Pieter Langerhuizen)
- collector's mark: verso, lower left, violet ink stamp: L. 1407 (Frederick Carel Theodoor van Isendoorn à Blois)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Baron F.C. Th. Isendoorn à Blois, (L. 1407, with his mark), his sale [C.F. Roos & C. F. Roos, Jr., Amsterdam, 18 August 1879, lot 74], sold, to Linnig. Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam. P. Langerhuizen, Bussum, the Netherlands (L. 2095, with his mark), his sale [Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 29 April - 1 May 1919, lot 372]. Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1965; The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.149.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Accession Year
- 1999
- Object Number
- 1999.149
- 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. 23, p. x, repr.
- Frederik J. Duparc, "[Review] Collectie Abrams in Rijksprentenkabinet", Tableau (1991), vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 40-42, p. 40
- 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. 19, pp. 56-57, repr.
- Susan Donahue Kuretsky, Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, exh. cat., Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY, 2005), cat. no. 28, repr. (color)
- Annemarie Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850: Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, ed. Andreas Stolzenburg and Hubertus Gaßner, Böhlau Verlag (Cologne, 2011), vol. 1, p. 271, under cat. no. 426
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 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
- Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, 04/08/2005 - 06/19/2005; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 08/20/2005 - 10/30/2005; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 01/10/2006 - 03/26/2006
Subjects and Contexts
- Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
Verification Level
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