The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 31, 2023

Pastoral Landscape with Village

1799

Jacob Cats

(Dutch, 1741–1799)

Netherlands, 18th century

Watercolor, point of brush and watercolor, and pen and brown ink over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink

Support: Cream(2) wove paper laid down on cream(3) wove paper

Sheet: 18.1 x 25.7 cm (7 1/8 x 10 1/8 in.); Secondary Support: 18.1 x 25.7 cm (7 1/8 x 10 1/8 in.)

Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1989.227

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

VERSO, through transmitted light, lower left, in ink: J. Cats inv et fecit [17?]99 ; upper left, in ink(?): 32 97 1/2 ; center, in ink(?): N° 65 [sideways]; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower left, in graphite: Jacob Cats [erased] [illegible, erased] / 1[79?]9 [erased]

Provenance
Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam
Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland
(Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam, (according to departmental cataloguing sheet); Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland
Exhibition history

The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1989.227