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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2004.90
People
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
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 4557 [encircled]
  • watermark: [countermark]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
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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

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