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    Museum collections / The Cleveland Museum of Art
    Pastoral Landscape with a Ruin by Jacob Cats
    Jacob Cats. Pastoral Landscape with a Ruin, 1799. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00012201

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    Pastoral Landscape with a Ruin

    by Jacob Cats

    Also known as: Landscape with a Ruin

    Inscriptions

    VERSO, through transmitted light, signed(?), lower left, in ink: J. Cats [inv et fecit?] / 1799 ; upper center, in ink(?): 32 37 1/2 ; center, in ink(?): N° 65 ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower left, in graphite: J. Cats inv et fecit [erased] / 1799 (erased)

    Exhibition history

    The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jacob Cats (Dutch, 1741–1799)
    Date
    1799
    Medium
    watercolor, point of brush and watercolor, and pen and brown ink over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink and brown wash
    Dimensions
    Sheet: 25.8 x 18 cm (10 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.); Secondary Support: 25.8 x 18 cm (10 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    Drawing
    Department
    Drawings
    Credit line
    Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin
    Accession no.
    1989.228

    Provenance

    Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland (Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam (according to departmental cataloguing sheet)); Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland

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    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Cleveland Museum of Art publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Cleveland Museum of Art is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    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-00012201

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