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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2005.100
People
Isaac de Moucheron, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1667 - 1744 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Title
A Capriccio with Nymphs in the Garden of a Palace
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1739
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299624

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent watercolor, white opaque watercolor and brown ink over graphite on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 22.9 x 34.1 cm (9 x 13 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower center, dark brown ink: Moucheron Fecit, 1739.
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: Moucheron 1736
  • inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: LIGHT 0306

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Max Strauss, sold; [Glückselig/Wawra, Vienna, 22 March 1926, lot 196]. Stephen Cann, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 23 March 1971, lot 101] sold; to [Robert M. Light and Company, Santa Barbara, California, 1971], gift; Harvard University Art Museums, 2005.

NOTE: Information concerning the 1926 Vienna sale was taken from Nina Wedde, "Isaac De Moucheron (1667-1744)", under cat. no. W167, p. 415.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Light-Outerbridge Collection, Gift of Robert M. Light
Accession Year
2005
Object Number
2005.100
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Nina Wedde, "Isaac de Moucheron (1677-1744): His Life and Works with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Drawings, Watercolors, Paintings, and Etchings", Peter Lang (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, 1996), cat. no. W167, pp. 398, 415-6, repr. pl. 190

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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