Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Landscape with Classical Ruins

Artist: Jan Frans van Bloemen (Attributed to) (Dutch, 1662-1749)

Medium: brush and brown wash over graphite on paper

Dimensions: 8 3/4 in. x 17 1/16 in. (22.3 cm. x 43.3 cm.)

Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III

Accession Number: 1811.124

• saint holding cross within shield
  Type: watermark
  Location:
  Materials:

• James Bowdoin III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
• Bowdoin College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest

• Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
  • Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
  • Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
  • University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
  • Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)

Type: catalogue
Author: Henry Johnson
Document Title: Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 104
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Section Title: Pt. I, The Bowdoin Drawings
Date: 1885

Type: catalogue
Author: Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Document Title: Bowdoin Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building
Edition: 4th
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 104
Remarks: (as Unknown)
Publisher: Bowdoin College 
Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . .
Date: 1930

Type: catalogue
Author: David P. Becker
Document Title: Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Location: p. 205
Reference: no. 98 (illus.)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Date: 1985
			
		

An attribution to Frederic de Moucheron has also been suggested. The composition and technique bear resemblance to those of a sheet attributed to Crescenzio Onofri at Windsor Castle (Inv. no. 6136, repr. Blunt and Cooke 1960, p. 71, fig. 52).

Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College (Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985).