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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1932.368
People
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 1669 Amsterdam)
Title
Landscape with a Farmstead ("Winter Landscape")
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Winter Landscape
Classification
1 of 13
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1650
Culture
Dutch
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Brown ink, pale brown wash, and incidental marks in
black chalk on cream antique laid paper, prepared with
light rose-brown wash, mounted overall, framing line in
brown ink
Dimensions
6.7 x 16 cm (2 5/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
framed: 26.7 x 38.1 cm (10 1/2 x 15 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
watermark: none
inscription: mount, verso, lower center, graphite: 225.
collector's mark: mount, verso, lower left, black ink
stamp: L. 119 (Ambroise Firmin Didot)
collector's mark: mount, verso, lower left, black ink
stamp: L. 2879 (Freiherr Max von Heyl zu Herrnsheim)
Provenance
Possibly General Antoine-Francois Andreossy
2 of 13
(according to Firmin-Didot sale). Ambroise Firmin
Didot, Paris (L. 119, mount, verso, lower left) sold; [Paris,
Hôtel Drouot, 16 April – 21 May 1877, possibly lot 74, 75,
or 78.] Freiherr Max von Heyl zu Herrnsheim, Darmstadt
(L. 2879, mount, verso, lower left), sold; [Stuttgart, H. G.
Gutekunst, 25-26 May 1903, lot 246, repr.], to [H. G.
Gutekunst.] Charles A. Loeser, Florence; Bequest of
Charles A. Loeser, 1932.368.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.368
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Publication History
Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, Die Handzeichnungen
Rembrandts, E. F. Bohn (Haarlem, 1906), cat. no. 1142,
p. 259
Frits Lugt, Wandelingen met Rembrandt in en om
Amsterdam , P. N. van Kampen & Zoon (Amsterdam,
1915), p. 116, repr. fig. 71
3 of 13
Max Eisler, Rembrandt als Landschafter (Munich,
Germany, 1918), pp. 64-65
Corrado Ricci, Rembrandt in Italia, Alfieri & Lacroix
(Milan, Italy, 1918), p. 58, repr. p. 65
Frits Lugt, Mit Rembrandt in Amsterdam: Die
Darstellung Rembrandts vom Amsterdamer Stadtbilde
und von der unmittelbaren Landschaftlichen
Umgebung, exh. cat., Bruno Cassirer (Berlin, 1920), p.
113, repr. fig. 71
Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins et
d'Estampes. Marques estampillées et écrites de
collections particulières et publiques. . . ., Vereenigde
Drukkerijen (Amsterdam, 1921), p. 533
Hans Hell, "Die Spaten Handzeichnungen Rembrandts",
Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft (1930), vol. 51, pp.
4-43, p. 41
Arthur Mayger Hind, Rembrandt Norton Lectures
(Cambridge, MA, 1932), p. 111, n. 1
Otto Benesch, Rembrandt Werk und Forschung,
Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Vienna, 1935), p. 42
Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum
(Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 152, repr.
Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg
Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge,
MA, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 525, pp. 276-77, repr. vol. 2,
fig. 272
M.D. Henkel, Tekeningen van Rembrandt en zijn school,
Catalogus van de Nederlandse tekeningen in het
Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam , Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam (The Hague, Netherlands, 1943), under cat.
no. 74, pp. 37-8
A Thousand Years of Landscape East and West
(Paintings, Drawings, Prints), exh. cat., Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston (Boston, 1945), p. 16
4 of 13
A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg
Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum
(Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 19
Otto Benesch, Rembrandt, Selected Drawings (London
and New York, 1947), vol. 1, cat. no. 180, p. 37, repr. vol.
2, fig. 180
Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Art of Europe
during the XVIth - XVIIth Centuries, exh. cat.,
Worcester Art Museum (1948), cat. no. 51, p. 37, repr.
p. 40, fig. 51
H. E. van Gelder, Rembrandt en het landschap, H. J. W.
Becht (Amsterdam, 1948), p. 58, repr. p. 49
Felice Stampfle, Landscape Drawings & Water-colors,
exh. cat., Pierpont Morgan Library (New York, 1953),
cat. no. 67, pp. 9 and 26, repr. pl. IX
An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and
Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 49,
p. 12
Sherman E. Lee, Chinese Landscape Painting, exh. cat.,
Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH, 1954), cat.
no. 120, pp. 65 and 158, repr. p. 68, fig. 120
Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, Phaidon
Press (Oxford, 1954 - 1957), vol. 4, cat. no. 845, p. 221,
repr. fig. 993
Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of
Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin (Cambridge, MA,
Winter 1958), XII, no.2, pp. 196-209, p. 201
Felice Stampfle and Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann,
Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections, exh.
cat., Pierpont Morgan Library (New York, NY, 1960), cat.
no. 48, pp. 37-38, repr. pl. 42, fig. 48
Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, "Rezension: Otto
Benesch. The drawings of Rembrandt.", Kunstchronik
(1961), vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 10-28; no. 2, pp. 50-57, no. 3,
5 of 13
pp. 85-91, p. 57
Antoine Seilern, Paintings and Drawings of the
Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at
Princes Gate London, Shenval Press (London, England,
1961), under no. 200, p. 42
Eleanor C. Munro, The Golden Encyclopedia of Art,
Golden Press, Inc. (New York, NY, 1961), p. 197, repr. fig.
3
Bates Lowry, The Visual Experience; An Introduction to
Art, Prentice Hall and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York,
NY, 1961), p. 62, repr. fig. 32
Ernst W. Watson and Aldren A. Watson, Watson
Drawing Book, Reinhold Publishing Co. (New York, NY,
1962), p. 97, repr. p. 96, fig. 148
[Reproduction only], "Wash Drawing", American Artist,
(March 1963)., repr. p. 21
A Survey of the Collections, Fogg Art Museum
(Cambridge, MA, 1964), n.p., repr.
Alice I. Davies, "Rembrandt's Landscape Drawings"
(unpublished manuscript, Harvard University, April 1,
1965). Unpublished honors paper under the author's
maiden name, Alice G. Ingraham., vol. 1, pp. 45-46 and
50, repr. vol. 2, fig. 39
Daniel M. Mendelowitz, Drawing, Holt, Rinehart &
Winston (New York, NY, 1967), p. 121, repr. p. 115, fig. 513
Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art
Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University
Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, 1967), n.p.
Eliza Mason Webster, "Die berühmten
Graphiksammlungen der Welt (17): Graphik im Fogg
Art Museum Cambridge, USA", Westermanns
Montshefte, Georg Westermann Verlag (Braunschweig,
Germany, December 1968), vol. 109, no. 12, pp. 74-79,
6 of 13
p. 79, repr. p. 78, fig. 4
Ernst W. Watson, Art of Pencil Drawing, Watson-Guptill
Publications (New York, NY, 1968), p. 132, repr. fig. 92
Pieter Jacobus Johannes van Thiel, Rembrandt
1669/1969, exh. cat. (1969), cat. no. 80, p. 181, repr.
Dr. Vitale Bloch, Rembrandt Today; Two Lectures, by
Vitale Bloch. Published on the Occasion of his
Seventieth Birthday, Van Gendt and Co. (Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, 1970), pp. 68 and 70, repr. p. 69
Graham Collier, Form, Space, and Vision:
Understanding Art - A discourse on drawing, PrenticeHall, Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1972), pp. 27-31, repr. p.
27, fig. 2-2
Henri Dorra, Art in Perspective, Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich (New York, 1973), pp. 300-302, repr. p. 301,
fig. 21-7
Ursula Kaiser, Das Grosse Ravensburger Buch für
Hobby Maler, Otto Mayer Verlag Ravensburg (Berlin,
1973), p. 275
Otto Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt [enlarged
ed.], Phaidon Press (Oxford, 1973), vol. 4, cat. no. 845,
p. 216, repr. fig. 1047
Emma Lila Fundaburk and Thomas G. Davenport, Art at
Educational Institutions in the United States,
Scarecrow Press (Metuchen, NJ, 1974), p. 70, repr. pl.
16
Daniel M. Mendelowitz, A Guide to Drawing, Holt,
Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1976), p. 248
Gianni Carlo Sciolla, ed., Rembrandt Disegni, La Nuova
Italia Editrice (Florence, Italy, 1976), no. 41, repr. pl. 41
Bob Haak, Rembrandt Drawings, Woodstock (New
York, NY, 1976), cat. no. 55, repr.
Seymour Simmons, III and Mark S. A. Winer, Drawing:
the Creative Process, Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Englewood
7 of 13
Cliffs, NJ, 1977), pp. 4-5, repr. fig. 0.2
Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing [2nd
ed.], Prentice-Hall Press (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977),
repr. fig. 12.16
Konrad Oberhuber, "Charles Loeser as a Collector of
Drawings", Apollo (June 1978), vol. CVII, no. 196, pp.
464-469, pp. 467-468
Seymour Slive, "Rembrandt at Harvard", Apollo (June
1978), vol. 107, no. 196, pp. 452-463, p. 454 and 457,
repr. p. 456, fig. 6
Anthony Bailey, Rembrandt's House, Houghton Mifflin
Company (Boston, MA, 1978), repr. p. 226
Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain:
A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic
Confidence, J P Tarcher (Los Angeles, 1979), p. 23,
repr.
Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings:
Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg
Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 47, pp.
106-107, repr.
Daisaku Ikeda and René Huyghe, La nuit appelle
l'aurore; dialogue Orient-Occident sur la crise
contemporaine, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1980), repr.
pl. 22
The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden
Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no.
7
Bernard Chaet, The Art of Drawing, Holt, Rinehart &
Winston (New York, NY, 1983), p. 263, repr. p. 262, pl.
350
Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing [3rd
ed.], Prentice-Hall Press (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1984), p.
358, repr. p. 360, fig. 12.21
Peter Schatborn, Drawings by Rembrandt, His
8 of 13
Anonymous Pupils and Followers, Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1985),
under cat. no. 31, pp. 70-71 (n. 4)
Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A
Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art
Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA; New York,
NY, 1985), cat. no. 271, p. 232, repr.
Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America,
Netherlands-American Amity Trust and Eerdmans
(Washington, D.C. and Grand Rapids, MI, 1986), pp. 3940, repr. fig. 51
Jacqueline Guillaud and Maurice Guillaud, Rembrandt:
la Figuration Humaine (Paris, France and New York, NY,
1986), repr. p. 87, fig. 91
Director's Report / Harvard University Art Museums
(Cambridge, MA, 1987 - 1988), repr. p. 32
George R. Goldner, European Drawings, vol. 1:
Catalogue of the Collections: The J. Paul Getty
Museum, Malibu, California (Malibu, 1988), under cat.
no. 118, p. 265
Frederik J. Duparc, Landscape in Perspective:
Drawings by Rembrandt and his Contemporaries, exh.
cat., The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal,
1988), cat. no. 69, p. 177, repr.
Marc Le Bot, Rembrandt, Crown Publishers Inc. (New
York, NY, 1990), repr. p. 9
Cynthia Schneider, Rembrandt's Landcapes: Drawings
and Prints, exh. cat. (1990), cat. no. 77, pp. 245-46,
repr.
[Reproduction only], The Stations of Solitude, William
Morrow & Company (New York, 1990)., repr. cover
Martin Royalton-Kisch, "Rembrandt's Landscape
Drawings", Drawing: Masters and Methods, Raphael to
Redon, Philip Wilson Publishers / Royal Academy of
9 of 13
Arts (London, 1992), pp. 114-135, p. 122, repr. p. 124, fig.
21
Martin Royalton-Kisch, Drawings by Rembrandt and his
circle in the British Museum , British Museum Press
(London, 1992), under cat. no. 76, p. 163
Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing [4th
ed.], Prentice-Hall Press (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992),
fig. 13.24
David Blayney Brown, "Watercolor", The Dictionary of
Art, ed. Jane Turner, Grove's Dictionaries (New York,
1996), vol. 32, pp. 898-902, repr. p. 900, fig. 1
James Cuno, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of
Collecting, Harvard University Art Museums/Harry N.
Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 216-17, repr.
[sale catalogue], auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New
York, NY, January 29, 1997), under lot 49
Franklin W. Robinson and Sheldon Peck, Fresh Woods
and Pastures New: Seventeenth-Century Dutch
Landscape..., William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art
Museum (Chapel Hill, NC, 1999), under cat. no. 10, p. 54
Simon Schama, Rembrandt's Eyes, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
(New York, 1999), pp. 537-38, repr. p. 538
Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla
Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi
Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella C.L."), no. 12
Seymour Slive, "Collecting 17th-century Dutch art in the
United States: the current boom", Bulletin van het
Rijksmuseum (2001), vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 84-99, pp. 86,
97 (n. 10)
Howard J. Smagula, Creative Drawing, Laurence King
Publishing Ltd. (London, 2002), pp. 151-152, repr. p.
152, fig. 7.2
David Rosand, Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic
10 of 13
Expression and Representation, Cambridge University
Press (U.K.) (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 256-57, repr. p.
257
David Summers, Real Spaces: World Art History and
the Rise of Western Modernism , Phaidon Press (London
and New York, 2003), pp. 51 and 577, repr. p. 50, fig. 6
Clifford S. Ackley and Ronni Baer, Rembrandt's
Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher, exh. cat., MFA
Publications (Boston, 2003), cat. no. 128, pp. 197 and
323, repr. p. 197, fig. 128
Thomas Ketelsen and Christian Dittrich, Rembrandt Die
Dresdener Zeichnungen, ed. Thomas Ketelsen, Verlag
der Buchhandlung Walther König (Cologne, Germany,
2004), under cat. no. 110, p. 195, repr. fig. 1, and p. 214
(n. 4)
Susan Lumenello, "Picturing an Exhibition: On the
Making of 'Rembrandt'", Colloquy [Harvard Alumni
Quarterly] (Fall 2006), pp. 2-3, 11, p. 11
David Summers, "World Art History and the Rise of
Western Modernism, or, Goodbye to the Visual Arts",
from the symposium Compression vs. Expression:
Containing and Explaining the World's Art, ed. John
Onians, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
(Williamstown, MA, 2006), pp. 215-234, p. 222, repr.
fig. 1
Michael White, re-entry, University of North Texas
Press (Denton, Texas, 2006), repr. cover
Ivan Gaskell, Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of
Technique, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums
(Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
Christian Dittrich and Thomas Ketelsen, Rembrandt:
Les dessins de Dresde, exh. cat., Kupferstich-Kabinett,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Fondation
Custodia (Paris, 2006), under cat. no. 73, pp. 141 and
11 of 13
159 (n. 4), repr. p. 141, fig. 1
John Torreano, Drawing by Seeing, Harry N. Abrams,
Inc. (New York, NY, 2007), p. 19, repr.
Seymour Slive, Rembrandt Drawings, J. Paul Getty
Museum (Los Angeles, 2009), pp. 141-42, repr. fig. 11.17
Catalogue of Drawings by Rembrandt and his School in
the British Museum , website, British Museum, 2010,
under cat. no. 80 and under cat. no. 83
Exhibition History
A Thousand Years of Landscape East and West,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 10/24/1945 12/09/1945
A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg
Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville,
KY, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Art of Europe
during the XVIth-XVIIth Centuries, Worcester Art
Museum, Worcester, 01/01/1948 - 12/31/1948
Landscape Drawings and Watercolors, Pierpont
Morgan Library, New York, 01/01/1953 - 12/31/1953
Chinese Landscape Painting, Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland, 01/01/1954 - 12/31/1954
An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and
Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge,
04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954
Rembrandt Drawings from American Collections,
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 03/15/1960 04/16/1960; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge,
04/27/1960 - 05/29/1960
Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art
Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art
Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967
Rembrandt 1669/1969, Rijksprentenkabinet,
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 09/13/1969 - 11/30/1969
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The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden
Century of Dutch Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge,
11/21/1980 - 01/04/1981
Rembrandt: A Selection of his Works, Busch-Reisinger
Museum, Cambridge, 10/18/1984 - 12/11/1984
Landscape in Perspective: Drawings by Rembrandt
and his Contemporaries, Harvard University Art
Museums, Cambridge, 02/20/1988 - 04/03/1988; The
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 04/15/1988 05/29/1988
Rembrandt's Landscapes: Drawings and Prints,
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/11/1990 05/20/1990
Rembrandt's Journey: Painting, Draftsman, Etcher,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 10/26/2003 01/18/2004; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
02/14/2004 - 05/09/2004
Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique, Harvard
University Art Museums, Busch-Reisinger Museum,
09/09/2006 - 12/10/2006
Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and
Rembrandt, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge,
05/21/2016 - 08/14/2016
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but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently
revised and enhanced. For more information please
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