Museum of Art
Artist: Jan Frans van Bloemen (copy after) (Flemish, 1662-1749)
Medium: black chalk and pen and brown ink on paper
Dimensions: 11 1/8 in. x 16 3/16 in. (28.2 cm. x 41.1 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.66
- "Horosonti"
Type: inscription
Location: verso of old mount (lost)
Materials: pen and ink - fleur-de-lis within circle
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. 74 Remarks: (as "Horosonti?") 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. 64 Remarks: (as van Bloemen) 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. 99 (illus.) Publisher: Bowdoin College Date: 1985
The composition is that of a van Bloemen painting in the collection of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, datable before 1715 (repr. in A. Busiri Vici, Jan Frans van Bloemen Orizzonte [Rome, 1974], no. 272). An Zwollo (letter to the author, 13 July 1984) feels it is done after the painting, rather than preliminary to it.
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).