Landscape with Sleeping Peasants, c. 1605

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (approximate): 25.7 x 39.1 cm (10 1/8 x 15 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith

Accession Number

1979.76.2

Artists / Makers

Jacques de Gheyn II (artist) Dutch, 1565 - 1629

Image Use

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Inscription

inscribed by Ch. Gasc across center verso: Elsheimer (Adam) [det] Francfort et Tedesco ne a Francfort sur le Mein en 1574, mort en 1620 / Eleve de B. [O]ffenbach. / h= 0,25 8 l= 0,391 / Dessin achete a Paris 11,774 le Juillet 1860 / Collection Kaienmann de Bruxel les) / Ch. Gase (Lugt 1068)

Provenance

Kaienann, Brussels (according to C. Gasc, verso); A.P.E. Gasc (Lugt 1131), Charles Gasc (Lugt 544) with his attribution to Elsheimer on the verso and the inscription "Dessin acheté à Paris 11,774 le Juillet 1860"; (H. Shickman Gallery, New York); Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Smith; gift to NGA, 1979.

Associated Names

Shickman Gallery, Herman
Smith, Robert H., Mr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1974: NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 75.

1978: NGA Master Drawings 1978, p. 51.

Bibliography

1983: Van Regteren Altena 1983, vol.2, 957.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 667, no. 1059, color repro.

1986: Rotterdam 1986, 94.