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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.106
People
Follower of Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, Netherlandish (Breda (?), Belgium 1526/30 - 1569 Brussels, Belgium)
Title
View of a Town; verso: Two Battlescenes and Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1566?
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295507

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink; verso: brown ink
Dimensions
14 x 21.8 cm (5 1/2 x 8 9/16 in.)
mount: 20.2 x 27.5 cm (7 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower center, graphite: 123
  • inscription: lower left, brown ink: Sten
  • inscription: upper center, black chalk: 1566 [possibly by the artist's hand]
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Lord Wharton. [Baskett & Day, London, 1975], sold; to Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979.106

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.106
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eunice Williams, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., ed. Konrad Oberhuber and William W. Robinson, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), cat. no. 13, p. 25, repr. pp. 88-89

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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