DrawingsDutch17th century

Landscape with Trees by a River

c. 1645-1653

Artists

Simon de VliegerArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black and white chalk and gray wash on blue antique laid paper, framing line in black ink

Culture

Dutch

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

26.7 x 44 cm (10 1/2 x 17 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Unidentified Collection (with its mark, blind stamp P, former mount, lower right, not in Lugt). Private Collector, Bordeaux, France, sold; to [Michel-Witold Gierzod, Paris] sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999; Purchase through the generosity of David Giles Carter, Eric Greenleaf, an anonymous donor and the Grenville L. Winthrop Frame Fund, 1999.66.

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