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  • (four letters difficult to decipher, probably a countermark)
    Type: watermark
    Location:
    Materials:
  • "p ko" (cf. Boos 1981, p. 161, fig. 8)
    Type: inscription
    Location: verso
    Materials: red chalk
  • "p - koning" (cf. Broos 1981, p. 161, figs. 1-2)
    Type: inscription
    Location: verso
    Materials: graphite
  • "philip konink"
    Type: inscription
    Location: verso
    Materials: graphite
  • "LT" (cf. Broos 1981, cat. no. 43)
    Type: inscription
    Location: verso
    Materials: pen and brown ink
  • several indecipherable words [in artist's hand, according to Gerson in conversation]
    Type: inscription
    Location: verso
    Materials: pen and brown ink
  • "No 52 Rembrant"
    Type: inscription
    Location: former mount (lost)
    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)
  • Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings and Selected Prints
  • Drawing on Basics
    • Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 10/14/1993 - 12/19/1993)
  • Prints/Drawings & Drawings/Prints, 1500-1800
    • Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 8/4/2009 - 9/20/2009)
Type: catalogue
Author: Henry Johnson
Document Title: Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 50
Remarks: (as Rembrandt)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Section Title: Pt. I, The Bowdoin Drawings
Date: 1885

Author: Rev. F. H. Allen
Document Title: The Bowdoin Collection
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Location: pt. 3
Reference: no. 2, repr.
Remarks: (as Rembrandt)
Section Title: [five parts of four illustrations each, with individual texts]
Date: 1886

Author: F. J. Mather, Jr.
Document Title: Art in America, vol. II, no. 2
Location: pp. 111-112
Reference: fig. 3
Remarks: (as Rembrandt imitator, suggests Koninck, per Valentiner)
Section Title: Drawings by Old Masters at Bowdoin College Ascribed to Northern Schools:  II
Date: 1914

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. 50
Remarks: (as Rembrandt)
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . .
Date: 1930

Author: H. Gerson
Document Title: Philips Koninck
Publ. Place: Berlin
Location: pp. 65, 140
Reference: no. Z20, repr. pl. 38
Remarks: (as Koninck)
Date: 1936

Author: W. Sumowski
Document Title: Drawings of the Rembrandt School
Publ. Place: New York
Location: vol. 6
Reference: no. 1531x, repr.
Date: 1979ff

Author: B. Broos
Document Title: Rembrandt en tekenaars uit sizn omgeving
Publ. Place: Amsterdam
Location: p. 157
Date: 1981

Type: exhibition catalogue
Author: David P. Becker
Document Title: Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Location: p. 56-57
Reference: no. 25
Publisher: Bowdoin College
Date: 1985

Author: Peter C. Sutton
Document Title: A Guide to Dutch Art in America
Publ. Place: Grand Rapids
Location: p. 33
Reference: fig. 40
Publisher: The Netherlands-American Amity Trust, Inc.
Date: 1986
			
		

This drawing is closely related stylistically to the other Bowdoin sheet (BCMA 1811.22), as pointed out by Sumowski. He also dates this view to the early 1660s. He dismisses Baer's suggestion that this composition is based upon Rembrandt's etching Hut behind the Picket Fence of 1648 (Bartsch 232), for this motif is a common one in landscapes of the period. As it is in the Bowdoin River Landscape, Koninck's treatment of the foliage and individual features of the fence and buildings is particularly subtle. In conversation, Haverkamp Begemann has suggested that the dark washes at the water's edge may have been added later.

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).