2004.90: Cottages on Road by Edge of a Wood
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2004.90
- People
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Jan van Kessel, Dutch (1641 - 1680)
- Title
- Cottages on Road by Edge of a Wood
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: A Village with Peasants
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1665-c. 1669
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/293964
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Gray wash, black ink and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in graphite
- Dimensions
- 18.7 x 25.3 cm (7 3/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: [countermark]
- inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 4557 [encircled]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Private Collection. [Christie's, London, 3 April 1995, lot 184], sold; to [Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1995.
NOTE: Cited as "private collection" in Jan van Kessel (1641-1680), Alice I. Davies, 1992.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Special Purchase Fund in honor of Agnes Gund
- Accession Year
- 2004
- Object Number
- 2004.90
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Alice I. Davies, Jan van Kessel (1641-1680) (Ghent, Belgium, 1992), no. d68, pl. 251, under no. d67
Subjects and Contexts
- Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
Verification Level
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