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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.123
People
Follower of Claude-Joseph Vernet, French (Avignon 1714 - 1789 Paris)
Previously attributed to Jan van der Heyden, Dutch (Gorkum 1637 - 1712 Amsterdam)
Title
Italian Landscape
Other Titles
Alternate Title: View of Harbor with Sailing Vessels, Figures at a Mountain at Left, Mountains
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299785

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on light green antique laid paper; verso: reddened
Dimensions
16.6 x 21.6 cm (6 9/16 x 8 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Pfaff. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

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
1898.123
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Peasant women fill their water pots at the antique well under a tree at the left; in the middle distance is a lake dotted with sailing vessels; at the right mountains rise steeply from the lake's shores.

Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. I, cat. no. 639, p. 339

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