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Joris Hoefnagel

Associated Names
Joris Hoefnagel

Artist, Flemish, 1542 - 1600

The image shows an elevated view looking down into a crater-like landscape with steep surrounding cliffs. The horizon is high in the image, obscured by rocky formations and rising plumes of smoke. The detailed drawing has a sketch-like quality with fine lines depicting the cliffs and swirling smoke. The color palette is monochromatic, using shades of brown and beige. Two figures and a horse stand on a sloped terrain, providing scale. The crater's basin is visible, with smoke plumes and rock formations in the distance, stretching towards the horizon.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 18.8 x 29.3 cm (7 3/8 x 11 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1974.21.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Vignau-Wilberg 2017: no. F-e 13

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lord Treowen, Llanover House, Monmouthshire; (sale, Burton, Knowles & Co, Gloucester, 20-28 June 1934). Mr. Alfred Jowett, Killinghall. David Carritt, Ltd; purchased 1974 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 41.

Bibliography

1896

  • Chmelarz, Eduard. "Georg und Jacob Hoefnagel" Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses 17 (1896): 290.

1936

  • Popham, A. E. "Georg Hoefnagel and the Civitates Orbus Terrarum" Maso Finiguerra I (1936): 191, p. V

1985

  • Kaufmann, Thomas Dacosta. "A Census of Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680, in North American Collections" Central European History xviii, 1 (1985):4-13, 70-74, 88.

1988

  • Nuti, Lucia. "The mapped views by Georg Hoefnagel: the merchant's eye, the humanist's eye." Word and Image. 4(April-June 1988): 545-570, fig. 19.

2005

  • Vignau-Wilberg, Thea. In Europa zu Hause. Berlin, 2005: 252, fig. 57.

2017

  • Vignau-Wilberg, Thea. Joris and Jacob Hoefnagel: Art and Science around 1600. Berlin, 2017: no. F-e 13

2019

  • Bass, Marisa Ann. Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt. Princeton, 2019: 26 and fig. 13.

Inscriptions

Inscription at left and lower center partly illegible

Wikidata ID

Q64584521

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