A drawing of a tree in a forest
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A drawing of a tree with leaves, in a forest at dusk.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.219
People
Anthonie Waterloo, Dutch (Lille, France 1609 - 1690 Utrecht, Netherlands)
Title
A Forest at Twilight
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1675-1685
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296368

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk, charcoal, and gray wash on blue antique laid paper, autograph framing line in charcoal; verso: test strokes in white chalk
Dimensions
28.3 x 23 cm (11 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
mount: 32.6 x 26.9 cm (12 13/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower left and lower right, black chalk: [lower left] 15 [lower right] 15
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: A78752[triangle] [not Colnaghi]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, black ink, stamp: L. 1507 (John Postle Heseltine)
  • inscription: mount, lower center, graphite: 8 7/16 10 3/4.
  • inscription: mount, lower center, graphite: N 185 Waterloo
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: HVO
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: [illegible] P. J. S. / EXV
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: 16/8/60.
  • inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite: A.WATERLOO
  • inscription: former mount, graphite: Waterloo / Heseltine collection
  • inscription: former mount, graphite: s [encircled] Paul Sachs / no. 542
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: HVO
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Postle Heseltine, London (L. 1507, with his mark). [Frederick Keppel & Co., New York], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (without his mark), by 1933, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.219
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John Postle Heseltine, Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Dutch School in the Collection of J.P.H., Chiswick Press (London, England, 1910), cat. no. 36, n.p., repr.
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 542, p. 284; vol. 2, repr. fig. 280
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 59, p. 14
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), p. 206
  • Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 98-100, 177, 233, repr. p. 99 as fig. 20

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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