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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.39
People
Jan van Goyen, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1596 - 1656 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
Three Studies of a Cow
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1650
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297023

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing line in black chalk
Dimensions
9.6 x 15.6 cm (3 3/4 x 6 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper right, brown wash: 150
  • watermark: unidentified fragment with B below

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Andrew Geddes, A.R.A., London; his sale [Christie and Manson, London, 8 April 1845, lot 361?]. Possibly on loan; to Mauritshuis, The Hague. Mr. Johnson Neale. T. Mark Hovell, London, 1918. [Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1981, lot 124], sold; to [P. & D. Colnaghi, London]. A.W.M. Mensing, Amsterdam, his sale; [Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 29 April 1937, lot 218], sold; to Otto Hirschman, sold; to A. Mayer, The Hague and New York. van Dieman-Lilienfeld Gallery, 1957, sold; to Marian Harris Phinney, 1960, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Marian H. Phinney
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.39
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hans-Ulrich Beck, Jan van Goyen 1596-1656, Davaco Publishers (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1972 - 1987), Vol. 1, no. 847/240B
  • The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no. 9
  • Miriam Stewart, "Curating Sketchbooks: Interpretation, Preservation, Display", Recto Verso: Redefining the Sketchbook, ed. Angela Bartram, Nader El-Bizri, and Douglas Gittens, Ashgate Publishing (Surrey, England and Burlington, VT, 2014), 163-175, p. 169 and repr. as fig. 12.3

Exhibition History

  • The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/04/1981
  • Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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