1929.77: Landscape with a Town

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1929.77

People

Jörg Breu the Elder, German (c. 1475 - 1537)

Title

Landscape with a Town

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298771

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on off-white antique laid paper

Dimensions

19.1 × 30.5 cm (7 1/2 × 12 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: high crown surmounted by a cross (similar to Briquet 4924 and 4953; Mongan-Sachs W. 39)
• inscription: center foreground: P

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mary Woodard Reinhardt, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1929

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Albert D. Lasker

Accession Year

1929

Object Number

1929.77

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Anita V. Davis, "A Drawing by Jörg Breu", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum (November 1938), VIII, no. 1, pp. 31-35, pp. 31-35, repr.
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 374, fig. 188

Exhibition History

• Northern Renaissance Art: Selected Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/28/1984 - 04/08/1984
• Prints and Drawings from the Time of Holbein and Breugel, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1985 - 01/12/1986
• 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/21/2022 - 07/25/2022

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