Pastoral Landscape with a Ruin

Jacob Cats (Dutch, 1741-1799)1799

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Title: Pastoral Landscape with a Ruin
Creator: Jacob Cats (Dutch, 1741-1799)
Date Created: 1799
Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 25.8 x 18 cm (10 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.); Secondary Support: 25.8 x 18 cm (10 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Provenance: Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam, Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland, (Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam (according to departmental cataloguing sheet)); Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland
Type: Drawing
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.228
Medium: watercolor, point of brush and watercolor, and pen and brown ink over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink and brown wash
Inscriptions: VERSO, through transmitted light, signed(?), lower left, in ink: J. Cats [inv et fecit?] / 1799 ; upper center, in ink(?): 32 37 1/2 ; center, in ink(?): N° 65 ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower left, in graphite: J. Cats inv et fecit [erased] / 1799 (erased)
Department: Drawings
Culture: Netherlands, 18th century
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
Collection: DR - Dutch
Accession Number: 1989.228

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