1932.172: Landscape; verso: Landscape sketch with monument
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1932.172
- People
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Gaspar van Wittel (called Vanvitelli), Dutch (Amersfort, Netherlands 1652 - 1736 Rome, Italy)
- Title
- Landscape; verso: Landscape sketch with monument
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 17th-18th century
- Culture
- Dutch
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/298518
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Brown ink, gray wash, and black chalk on light tan antique laid paper; verso: graphite, black ink, and red chalk
- Dimensions
- actual: 26.7 x 41.6 cm (10 1/2 x 16 3/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso of former mat, pencil: Claudio
- watermark: Fleur de lis, encircled [close to Heawood 1591; Venice 1690]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Charles A. Loeser, Florence; Bequest of Charles A. Loeser, 1932.172
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
- Accession Year
- 1932
- Object Number
- 1932.172
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 544, p. 285; vol. 2, repr. fig. 283
- An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 87, p. 20
- Giuliano Briganti, Gaspar van Wittel, Electa (Milan, Italy, 1996), cat. no. D23, p. 308, repr. p. 309
- Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 119 ("Cartella con quattro stelle nere")
Exhibition History
- Unidentified Exhibition, Zanesville Art Institute, 1950, Zanesville Art Institute, Zanesville, 01/01/1950 - 12/31/1950
- An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954
Subjects and Contexts
- Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings
Verification Level
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