Medium:Pen and brown ink, gray and brown wash over black chalk; framing line in pen and brown ink
Dimensions:sheet: 9 1/4 x 14 7/16in. (23.5 x 36.7cm) frame: 16 1/8 x 21 1/4 in. (41 x 54 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1965
Accession Number:65.48
Inscription: Verso bottom margin in pen and brown ink: de Stad Nantes van de Hermitati (slightly cut off) verso lower left in brown ink: 10. verso top in pencil: De Stad Nantes verso lower left in pencil: 59² / b 12² verso lower left in pencil: K:N52/ fho/ Roc... verso lower left in pen and brown ink: No 636 verso lower right in pencil: A1941
On mat: upper part: Veg. Ploos v. Amstel 1800/Langerhuizen 1919 no. 220/Coll. ten Cate, no. 202, pl. 108/v.d.B.33/Nantes von der Hermitage/.265 (263) x 367 mm.
lower part: tekening 235 x 369 mm./ De Stad Nantes van de/Katal. 202/Ten Cate 1964; C.G. Boerner, Dusseldorf.
Marking: Unidentified watermark at center of sheet
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (Dutch); Pieter Langerhuizen; Hendrikus Egbertus ten Kate; Vendor: Herbert Norman Bier (German)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 10–June 9, 1985.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," February 6–April 16, 1995.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," October 29, 2002–January 26, 2003.
Fondation Custodia-Collection Frits Lugt. "Voyages en France: Dessinateurs hollandais au siècle de Rembrandt," October 3, 2006–December 3, 2006.
Museum Het Rembrandthuis. "Voyages en France: Dessinateurs hollandais au siècle de Rembrandt," December 16, 2006–February 11, 2007.
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel Cornelis Ploos van Amstel collection sale catalogue. vol. 1, 1800, cat. no. 28, p. 104.
A. Bredius "Lambert Doomer (1622-1700)" in La Revue de L'Art Ancien et Moderne. vol. 28, 1910, pp. 401-418.
Frederik Muller Pieter Langerhuizen Collection sale catalogue. Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 1919, cat. no. 220, fig. no. 13, p. 28, ill.
Horst Gerson Ausbereitung und Nachwirkung der Holländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts (De expansie der 17e-eeuwsche Hollandsche schilderkunst). Haarlem, 1942, p. 48.
Herma van den Berg "W. Schellinks en L. Doomer in Frankrijk" in Oudheidhundig Jaarboek, 4rde serie van het Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond. vol. 11, January,. 1943, pp. 1-31.
D. Hannema, Hendrikus Egbertus ten Kate Catalogue of the H. E. ten Kate Collection. Rotterdam, 1955, cat. no. 202, fig. no. 108, p. 119, ill.
Arthur Ewart Popham, K. M. Fenwick The National Gallery of Canada Catalogue. Volume 4: European Drawings. Toronto, 1965, p. 116.
Wolfgang Schulz Lambert Doomer. PhD diss., Freien Universität Berlin, 1972 cat. no. 64.
Jacob Bean "Drawings." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965-1975. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, p. 54, ill.
Jacob Bean Patterns of Collecting: Selected Acquisitions, 1965-1975. Explanatory texts accompanying an exhibition. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, p. 54, ill.
Werner Sumowski Drawings of the Rembrandt School. vols. 1, 2, New York, 1979, cat. no. 470x, p. 1004, ill.
Helen Bobritzky Mules "Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in The Metropolitan Museum of Art." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 42, no. 4, New York, 1985, pp. 42-43, ill.
Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, 1988-1989. Exh. cat., Vancouver Art Gallery, Sept. 13-Nov. 20, 1988; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Dec. 9, 1988-Feb. 12, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, Mar. 5-May 21, 1989. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Washington D.C., 1988, cat. no. 44, fig. no. 1, p. 146, ill.
Michiel C. Plomp The Dutch Drawings in the Teyler Museum; Volume II: Artists born between 1575 and 1630. Haarlem / Ghent / Doornspijk, 1997, fig. no. 7, p. 9, ill.
Joaneath Spicer, Odilia Bonebakker, Joaneath Spicer, David Franklin Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada. Exh. cat., 5/23-9/1/2003 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; 7/24-10/17/2004 Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge; 11/20/2004-2/20/2005 Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2003, pp. 124-125, ill.
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