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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.73
People
Circle of Pieter Jan van Liender, Dutch (Utrecht, Netherlands 1727 - 1779 Utrecht, Netherlands)
Title
Landscape: Canal Scene
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299715

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, brown and gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, with a framing line in gray ink
Dimensions
19.5 x 26.9 cm (7 11/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: fragment of a coat of arms [possibly Strasbourg Lily?]
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: by Wyntranck, original
  • inscription: former mat, graphite: [lower right:] 484. [right:] Original by Wyntranck. from the Cabinet of the Marquis dAllegre / dispersed in 1849 [right, other hand:] see Immerzeel / Dutch Painter of Ruisdael-period [left, partially obscuring first inscription at right:] Ruisdael / contemp) / The fine Dutch Painter Wintrank. a fine original / from the Marquis dAllegre Col. The Finest Landscape / in the Col. / dispersed in 1849.
  • inscription: lower left, graphite: Wyntranc f
  • collector's mark: verso, lower left, purple ink stamp and brown ink: L. 2130 [with accompanying inscription] 484. (John Witt Randall Collection at Harvard College)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Marquis d'Allegre or Marquis d'Aligre. John Witt Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, Boston, Massachusetts, 1892, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1892.

NOTE: An inscription in Randall's hand says the drawing is from the Cabinet of the Marquis d'Allegre whose collection was dispersed in 1849. The Marquis d'Aligre's auction occurred in 1849 (also 1848 and 1854). The estate of the Marquis d'Allegre was in 1872, no record of the drawing was found in 1849 or 1872 auction catalogues available.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.73
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 552, pp. 290-91

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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