About the Artwork
Landscape with Shepherds
between 1682 and 1749
Jan van Huysum
1682-1749
Dutch
Unknown
Pen and black and gray ink with gray wash on discolored laid paper
Sheet: 5 1/8 × 6 3/4 inches (13 × 17.1 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
34.96
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in pen and black ink, center of lower margin: Jan Van Huijsum fecit.
Inscribed, in pencil, upper left, verso: [illegible] Inscribed, in pencil, left, verso: Jan van Huysum | 1682-1749 Inscribed, in pencil, center, verso: 269
Provenance
unidentified collector [black collector's mark on recto at lower right]
E. Speelman (London, England)
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Scheyer, Ernst. Drawings and Miniatures from the XII to the XX Century. Detroit, 1936, no. 83.
Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, p. 80, no. 30 (ill.).
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Jan van Huysum, Landscape with Shepherds, between 1682 and 1749, pen and black and gray ink with gray wash on discolored laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.96.
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