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Landscape with Waterfalls and Bridges, Peasants in the Foreground
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower center, on mount, in graphite: "N. Berchem"; verso, upper left, in graphite: "17"; center, in pen and brown ink: "%1"; center, in graphite: "M"; lower left, in graphite: "J. v. Lidl, Nr. 113"; lower right, in graphite: "LGu. Cichorius (1908) u. Huldschinsky (1931)"
Provenance
Edouard Cichorius (1819–1907), Dresden, 1908 [correspondence with Robert Light and inscription, verso, lower right]. Oscar Huldschinsky (1846–1931), Berlin; sold, Paul Graupe, Berlin, Nov. 3, 1931, lot 14. Dr. Edward Traudtscholdt [Light correspondence]. C. G. Boerner [Light correspondence]. Sold by Robert M. Light, Boston, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 246, 249 (ill.), 288, cat. 94, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Nicolaes Berchem, the Elder / Dutch, 1621/22-1683
- Date
- c. 1670
- Medium
- Black chalk, with brush and black wash, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 25.3 × 30.7 cm (10 × 12 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Worcester Sketch Fund
- Accession no.
- 1982.502
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00004432
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