Sheet of Notes

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Drawing details

Title: Sheet of Notes
Date: c.1872-73
Media: Silverpoint on paper
Dimensions: 12.3 x 7.2 cm
Location: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Picture credit: Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Reference number: 1946.35.45 verso
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Cuyp River Scene / in Sir R's study / [illegible] Gainsborough Lady full / length / [illegible] Van der Neer sunset / [illegible] Ostade / child crying / [illegible] Jan Steen / music lesson / [illegible] N O M [illegible] / [illegible] Ho

Interpretation

Sir R is Sir Richard Wallace of Hertford House, Manchester Square, London (now the Wallace Museum). The paintings mentioned are all items from his collection. The following may be the paintings he saw, although in some cases there are alternatives in the Wallace Collection that would also fit Leighton's description. Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691), 'The Ferry Boat (The River Crossing)', 1650s, The Wallace Collection Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) 'Mrs Mary Robinson' ('Perdita'), Circa 1781, The Wallace Collection Aert (Arnout) van der Neer (1603/4-1677) 'Canal Scene by Moonlight', Circa 1645-50, The Wallace Collection Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685), 'Interior with Peasants', 1663 (includes a child crying), The Wallace Collection Jan Steen (1625/6-1679), 'The Harpsichord Lesson', late 1660s, The Wallace Collection Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709), represented in The Wallace Collection

Description

Page from a sketchbook. 

Provenance

Purchased by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, from Geoffrey Steele (antiquarian bookseller, c.1907-2000) from his bookshop at RFD 1, Mahopac, New York, in 1946 for $6.00.