2004.94: Travellers and Horsemen resting by a Fountain in an Italianate River Landscape

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2004.94

People

attributed to Dirk Maas, Dutch (Haarlem 1659 - 1717 Haarlem)

Title

Travellers and Horsemen resting by a Fountain in an Italianate River Landscape

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th-18th century

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294611

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk along left and bottom margins and framing line in black ink along top and right margins; verso: red chalk [another hand?]

Dimensions

18.9 x 30.8 cm (7 7/16 x 12 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: No 180 [underlined]
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: W. Schellings
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 182.
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 30
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: RA. 3
• collector's mark: verso, lower left, brown ink: No 182 [L. 2986, Goll van Franckenstein]
• inscription: verso, lower left, purple stamp: L. 2799a (Hans van Leeuwen)
• inscription: former mount, lower right, graphite: Hendrik Dankerts- 1657
• inscription: former mount, lower right, graphite, erased: B4848. [?]
• inscription: fomer mount, lower right, graphite, erased: Sagredo Borgese [?]
• inscription: former mount, verso, center graphite: Album Borghese
• inscription: foolscap with a five-pointed collar with 4 and three balls below (related only in a general way to Churchill 350, 1645, and Heawood 1925, 1645)
• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 3 / f
• inscription: former mount, graphite: Herkomst. Coll. Goll van Frankenstein / Dr. J den Hartogh. Zeist 1960. / Inv. nr A 1216 / Centraal Museum Utrecht. 1978 / foto KH.d. ... No. G. 1415
• inscription: former mount, graphite: Anm an verso. in ... hand W. Schellings. / van. coll nr. N.182

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Johan Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam (L. 2987, verso, lower left), sold; [De Vries et al., Amsterdam, 1 July 1833, possibly part of album S, lot 26]; to I. van Idsinga, sold; [De Vries et al., Amsterdam, 2 November 1840, possibly part of section E, lot 17]. Dr. J. den Hartogh, Zeist, 1960. Hans van Leeuwen, Utrecht (L. 2799a, verso, lower left), sold; [Christie's, Amsterdam, 24 November, 1992, lot 125, repr.]; to [Vermeer Associates, Ltd., Brampton, Ontario], 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 Werner Kramarsky

Accession Year

2004

Object Number

2004.94

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• L. Brozek-Dolezal and J. C. de Graaf-Oorthuys, Nederlandse Tekeningen uit drie Eeuwen, exh. cat., Centraal Museum Utrecht (Utrecht, The Netherlands, 29 April - 25 June 1978), cat. no. 8, pp. 7-8, repr. (as Nicolaas Berchem)
• Kunsthalle Bremen, Meisterzeichnungen aus drei Jahrhunderten: Niederländische Handzeichnungen des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Hans van Leeuwen, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bremen (Bremen, 1979), cat. no. 10, n. p. (as attributed to Nicolaas Berchem)

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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