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Travellers on a Forest Road

Artist:

Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem

Date:

17th century

Location:

Not on display

Century:

17th Century AD

Media:

Black Crayon Under Brush And Black Ink With Ink Wash On Cream Colored Laid Paper

Dimensions:

Image: 295 x 234 mm (11 5/8 x 9 3/16 in.)

Department:

Achenbach Foundation

Object Type:

Drawing

Country:

Holland

Continent:

Europe

Provenance:

purchase 1966 from Henry M. Mitchell, Hydra, Greece (ex. London and Berlin).

Accession Number:

1966.72

Acquisition Date:

1966-01-01

Credit Line:

Museum purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund

Exhibition History:

University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley: Master Drawings from California Collections, 1968. cat. ed. Juergen Schulz. cat. no. 63, p. 66, repr. p.147, entry by Sungmii Han.
Exhibited in late 1920s at Museum in Kassel, Germany, by Dr. Georg Gronau.

Crocker Art Museum, Reuniting the Masters: European Drawings from West Coast Collections, November 13, 2016 to February 5, 2017

Several people travelling through a forested area. In the foreground are a woman riding on an ox, a man on a horse, a man on foot with a walking stick, a woman walking while carrying something on her head and some sheep and a dog. Two other groups of travellers are seen to the left and in the background.

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