Landscape with Mountains, a River, and Elijah and the Raven

1620s

Magdalena van de Passe, after Roelandt Savery and Adam Willaerts

Associated Names
Magdalena van de Passe

Artist, Dutch, 1600 - 1638

Crispijn van de Passe I

Publisher, Dutch, c. 1565 - 1637

Roelandt Savery

Artist After, Dutch, 1576 - 1639

The image shows a landscape viewed from an elevated perspective above a rocky and wooded scene. The horizon is in the upper section of the composition, populated with intricate lines indicating distant mountains and a cloudy sky. Detailed and fine etching techniques are employed, with precise strokes creating textures in the trees and rocks. The color palette is monochromatic, varying from grey to white to black. The scene includes jagged rocks, trees with twisting branches, a waterfall cascading down rocks into a stream, and shadowy figures near the water. The composition is framed by bare trees and branches.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 25.6 × 34.2 cm (10 1/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
    plate: 21 × 26.5 cm (8 1/4 × 10 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.103.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 19

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Emanuel von Baeyer, London)

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. 72 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co.: Vol XVI, no. 19, state only.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, below image: Et Corui deferebant ei panes et carnem mane et panes carnem vesperi, et de Forente bibebat aquam E. Reg. Cap. 10; in plate, at lower left: Roelant Sauery Inuentor; in plate, at lower center: Magdalena van de pas fecit; in plate, at lower right: Crispin Van de pas excud; verso: none

Markings

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