Landscape with Large Rock

Allart van Everdingen

Associated Names
Allart van Everdingen

Artist, Dutch, 1621 - 1675

The image shows a rustic landscape from a slightly elevated perspective. The horizon is dominated by trees and a large rock formation. Birds are in flight above the horizon. The foliage is depicted with delicate brushstrokes blending seamlessly. The color palette is warm and monochromatic brown. In the foreground, three figures and a dog are walking along a rugged path as the landscape rises towards the trees and rock formation.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Lessing J. Rosenwald

  • Dimensions

    overall: 5 x 8.5 cm (1 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1987.20.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ploos van Amstel [1726-1798]. Hofstede de Groot [1863-1930]. Jean Paul Richter [1847-1937], London; (sale, Frederick Muller, 27-28 May 1913, no. 95). Edwin Czeczowiczka, until 1930; (his sale, Berlin, C.G. Boerner and Graupe, 12 May 1930, no. 69); Hess.[1] Oscar Wollheim, New York; sold May 1944 to Lessing J. Rosenwald;[2] gift of the Estate of Mrs. E.G. Rosenwald to the National Gallery, 1987.
[1]According to annotated copy of Czeczowiczka auction catalogue, copy in NGA curatorial file, and confirmed in the extant archival records of the Boerner Gallery in Dusseldorf. See letter dated 28 August 2002 from Artemis Fine Arts, in NGA curatorial files. The drawing probably left Europe after April 1939; an export stamp on the back of the mount of this drawing is of a type in use in Austria, and possibly Germany, from April 1939 until May 1945. [3] See Wollheim-Rosenwald correspondence regarding the purchase of this drawing, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower center in brown ink: AVE; on mount in unknown hand, lower left: Ex Coll.: Hofstede de Groot; J.P. Richter; / Ploos van Amstel (1726-1798); / Czeczowicka.

Markings

Stamped on mount on verso: VON DER ZENTRALSTELLE FUR DENKMALSCHUTZ ZUR AUSFUHR FREIGEGEBEN

Wikidata ID

Q64534522

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