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Winter Night in a Dutch Town
by Jacob Cats
Inscriptions
VERSO, signed(?), lower left, in brown ink: J. Cats inv et fec / 1797 ; lower left, in brown ink: 3 [upside down] ; upper left, in red pencil: 314 / T. H. ; lower left, in graphite: Coll. ten Cate Nr. 195 / [75?].116 ; lower left, in graphite: 17 [erased] ; lower right, in graphite: Biz. [under remnants of brown paper label, with typed notation "Biz."] 134. ; lower right, media not discernible (under paper label): [illegible] ; lower right, in graphite: A096 [beneath remnant of brown paper label] ; lower right, in graphite: [illegible] ; lower right, in graphite(?): 41 ; FRAGMENT OF OLD MOUNT(now removed), in graphite: J. Cats drawing ; Coll. ten Cate no. 195
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965). Dutch 18th Century Printing and Drawing. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (organizer) (October 7-November 14, 1971); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (December 3, 1971-January 30, 1972); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (February 17-March 19, 1972). Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983). Nocturnal Impressions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 12, 1985).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jacob Cats (Dutch, 1741–1799)
- Date
- 1797
- Medium
- watercolor heightened with white gouache; framing lines in brown wash
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 30.9 x 47.5 cm (12 3/16 x 18 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen, Delia E. Holden, and L. E. Holden Funds
- Accession no.
- 1965.76
Provenance
Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Sledmere House and Settrington, Yorkshire (Lugt 1897, verso, lower left, inscribed in brown ink: MMS). Hendrikus Egbertus ten Cate, Almelo (Lugt 533b, not stamped; verso, lower left, inscribed in graphite: Coll. ten Cate Nr. 195 / [75?].116 ; listed in D. Hannema, Catalogue of the H. E. ten Cate Collection, Rotterdam, 1955, p. 116, no. 195, according to departmental card). [Nathan Chaikin, New York]
More by Jacob Cats in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011726
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