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Artist: Unknown Artist (Dutch, -)
Medium: black crayon, black chalk, and grey wash on paper
Dimensions: 13 1/8 in. x 10 13/16 in. (33.3 cm. x 27.5 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ III
Accession Number: 1811.137
- strasbourg bend, fleur-de-lis above
Type: watermark
Location:
Materials:
- James ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
- ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
- Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College
- ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
- Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
- University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
- Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
Type: catalogue Author: Henry Johnson Document Title: Catalogue of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Art Collections Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 99 Remarks: (as Unknown) Section Title: Pt. I, The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ Drawings Date: 1885 Type: catalogue Author: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art Document Title: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building Edition: 4th Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 99 Remarks: (as Unknown) Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . . Date: 1930 Type: exhibition catalogue Author: David P. Becker Document Title: Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: pp. 62-63 Reference: no. 28 (illus.) Publisher: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Date: 1985 Document Title: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ Magazine Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: p. 75 Publisher: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Section Title: vol. 63, no. 2 Date: 1990
The former attribution to Nicolaes Berchem (see BCMA 1956.24.187) for this sheet has not been accepted, but the notation in the BCMA files as "Style of" Berchem is closer to the truth.1 Other suggestions have been made: a member of the van der Does family, by William Robinson; or an artist in the circle of Adam Pynacker, by Egbert Haverkamp Begemann. George Abrams has suggested the Haarlem painter Vincent Laurentsz. van der Vinne (1629–1702). Several drawings which have been attributed both to him and to his son, Laurens Vincentsz. van der Vinne (1658–1729), are very much in the manner of Berchem. Laurens, in fact, studied with Berchem.
Landscapes attributed to the van der Vinnes which depict the ruins at Brederode, near Haarlem, are in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris;2 the Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden;3 and the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.4 All three are datable to 1676 and have similarities, particularly in the depiction of trees and leaves, with the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ sheet. There seems to be no consensus as to which member of the van der Vinne family may have executed these studies.5
1. Horst Gerson, for instance, in 1969, noted "later than Berchem."
2. F. Lugt, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Inventaire général des dessins des écoles du nord, vol. I, Ecole hollandaise (Paris, 1950), p. 87, no. 710, pl. 91.
3. Bernt 1957-1958, vol. 2, no. 641, repr.
4. New York 1979, cat. no. 103, repr.
5. See discussion in New York 1979, p. 129, under cat. no. 103.
Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College (Brunswick: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art, 1985).