1979.64: Bergen (Mons) from the Vicinity of Glin

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1979.64

People

Constantin Huygens the Younger, Dutch (1628 - 1697)

Title

Bergen (Mons) from the Vicinity of Glin

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

4/30/1676

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295530

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, with a partial framing line in graphite, on light tan antique laid paper

Dimensions

12.5 x 19.3 cm (4 15/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Strasbourg Lily [similar to Heawood 1672, The Hague 1688]
• inscription: lower right, brown ink: Glin 30. April 1676.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Henry Oppenheimer, London, sold; [Christie's, London, 10, 13-14 July 1936, lot 254] to; Otto Hirschmann. E. Seeton, 1958, sold; to Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, to; Fogg Art Museum, 1979, bequest of Frances L. Hofer.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer

Accession Year

1979

Object Number

1979.64

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters, Oxford University Press (NY) (Oxford, England, 1908 -1909), Series I, part VIII (1911-1912), plate 22
• Catalogue of the Famous Collection of Old Master Drawings Formed by the Late Henry Oppenheimer, Esq., F.S.A., auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, July 10, 1936 - July 14, 1936), lot 254
• The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no. 11
• J. F. Heijbroek, Met Huygens op Reis (Zutphen, 1982), no. 85
• 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. 17, pp. 28-29, repr. p. 92
• Michael Zell, "A Leisurely and Virtuous Pursuit: Amateur Artists, Rembrandt, and Landscape Representation in Seventeenth-Century Holland", Simiolus, Waanders Uitgevers (Zwolle, The Netherlands, 2003), vol. 54, pp. 334-68, repr. p. 344, fig. 10

Exhibition History

• The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/04/1981
• Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 04/15/1984 - 07/07/1984; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/05/1984 - 11/29/1984
• 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/31/2018 - 03/06/2019

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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