The Cleveland Museum of Art

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17th century

Ludolf Backhuysen

(Dutch, 1631–1708)

Netherlands, 17th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and gray and brown wash, with brush and grey ink; framing lines in brown ink

Support: Beige(1) laid paper

Sheet: 12.3 x 17.1 cm (4 13/16 x 6 3/4 in.)

The Norweb Collection 1954.702

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO, lower center, in brown ink: Jan Eraht[?]1315 [?, upside down]

Exhibition history

Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).

Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1954.702