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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.23
People
Franz Theobald Horny, German (Weimar 1798 - 1824 Olevano)
Title
View of Olevano; verso: Landscape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312421

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over graphite on white wove paper; verso: brown ink and blue wash
Dimensions
24.2 x 26.2 cm (9 1/2 x 10 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Baron Carl Friedrich von Rumohr. 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
1898.23
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), no. 433, fig. 212
  • Ernst Scheyer, "German Paintings and Drawings from the Time of Goethe in American Collections", The Art Quarterly (Summer 1949), vol. XII, no. 3, pp. 231-250, no. 51, fig. 8
  • Walther Scheidig, Franz Horny, Henschel Verlag (Berlin, 1954), no. 307a, pl. 23
  • William W. Robinson, Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), checklist no. 7, repr. (color)
  • Hanna Hohl and Hermann Hildenberger, Franz Theobald Horny: Ein Romantiker im Lichte Italiens, exh. cat., G + H Verlag (Berlin, Germany, 1998), fig. 33, p. 67
  • Hanna Hohl, Hermann Mildenberger, and Hinrich Sieveking, Franz Theobald Horny: Eine Romantiker im Lichte Italiens, G + H Verlag (Berlin, 1998), p. 66, fig. 33
  • William W. Robinson, "John Witt Randall: An Early American Collector of Later German Drawings", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2001), vol. 39, no. 2, Summer, pp. 159-168, pp. 162, 166, fig. 2 (color)
  • Domenico Riccardi, Olevano e i suoi pittori, Pieraldo Editore Roma (Rome, 2004), verso: repr. on cover (detail), title page, repr. p. 189

Exhibition History

  • German Paintings and Drawings from the Time of Goethe in American Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 11/17/1949 - 12/15/1949
  • German Rococo and Romanticism, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, 03/12/1977 - 05/01/1977
  • 19th-Century German Drawings and Watercolors, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 07/01/1981 - 08/31/1981
  • From Mengs to Menzel: 19th-Century German Drawings, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/28/1981 - 12/22/1981
  • 19th-Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 09/01/1983 - 10/09/1983
  • Classicism-Romanticism-Realism: German Drawings from Mengs to Menzel in the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/04/1998 - 06/28/1998
  • 32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/04/2020 - 01/24/2022

Verification Level

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