1962.40: Landscape with Cottages and Figures

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1962.40

People

Jan van Goyen, Dutch (Leiden, Netherlands 1596 - 1656 The Hague, Netherlands)

Title

Landscape with Cottages and Figures

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1650

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297024

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk and gray wash on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

actual: 9.7 x 15.8 cm (3 13/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, upper left, black chalk: n
• watermark: none
• inscription: upper right, brown wash: 240

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Possibly Andrew Geddes, A.R.A., London; his sale [Christie and Manson, London, 8 April 1845, lot 361?]. Possibly 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], 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

1962.40

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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, repr.
• The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no. 10
• Joanna Sheers Seidenstein and Susan Anderson, ed., Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2022), pp. 41-43, 230, repr. p. 43 as fig. 8

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
• Crossroads: Drawing the Dutch Landscape, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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