Object number2002.15
Ruined Cottages in Apstede, near Utrecht
Date1674
Artist
Herman Saftleven, II
(Dutch, 1609-1685)
CultureDutch
MediumBlack chalk with brush and gray-green ink wash and touches of blue wash on cream laid paper with a watermark
DimensionsMatted: 11 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. (28.89 x 23.81 cm)
Mount: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (24.13 x 19.05 cm)
Sheet: 7 3/4 x 6 in. (19.69 x 15.24 cm)
Mount: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (24.13 x 19.05 cm)
Sheet: 7 3/4 x 6 in. (19.69 x 15.24 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Friends of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Fund
On View
Not on viewPeriod17th c
Classification(s)
SignedSigned and dated (verso)
InscribedInscribed (verso, in brown ink): Dit op dander sijde getekent van Herman Saft leven is in Apstee @1674
BibliographySusan Donahue Kuretsky, Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art (Poughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC, 2005), p. 205
Wofgang Schulz, Herman Saftleven, Berlin/New York 1982, p. 284, cat. 589, illus., fig. 198, and probably also p. 283, cat. 584-AProvenanceProbably Gerlings Collection; Probably Vincent van Gogh, sale Amsterdam, de Vries, 2 December 1913, in lot 691 (provenance for Schulz cat. 584-A; see Cat. Rais.); Holtkott Collection; with C.G. Boerner, Dusseldorf; with Paul Drey Galleries, New York, 1976; Bears unidentified collector's mark, verso. Haboldt & Co., ParisVassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art", April 8-June 19 2005. catalog no. 48Poughkeepsie, NY, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Master Class: Northern European Art 1500-1700 from the Permanent Collection," April 27-September 2, 2018.
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