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    A Castle on a Crag in a Mountainous Landscape
    Joos de Momper. A Castle on a Crag in a Mountainous Landscape, late 1590s. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00006148

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    A Castle on a Crag in a Mountainous Landscape

    by Joos de Momper

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed on verso of mount, upper left, in graphite: "14"; verso, lower right: "81"

    Provenance

    Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919).  Probably, Nicolaas Beets (1878–1963), Amsterdam; sold to I.Q. (Johan Quirijn) van Regteren Altena (1899–1980), Amsterdam, Oct. 19, 1929 [stamp (Lugt 4617) verso, lower left, in black; Inventory book: '769. t. de Momper rotsen en burg']; by descent; sold, Christie’s, London, July 10, 2014, lot 3, to the Art Institute of Chicago.

    Exhibition history

    Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Meesterwerken uit vier eeuwen: 1400–1800, 1938, no. 304.   Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Tekeningen van Jan van Eyck tot Rubens, 17 December 1948–1 February 1949, no. 55.   Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, De Van Eyck à Rubens: Dessins de Maîtres Flamands, March–April 1949, no. 69.   Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, De Van Eyck à Rubens: Les Maîtres Flamands du Dessin, 1949, no. 71.   Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rijksprentenkabinet, Hercules Seghers en zijn voorlopers, 1967, no. V.42 (cover image of exhibition catalogue/booklet).   Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Le Cabinet d’un Amateur, 25 November 1976– 6 March 1977, no. 89, pl. 27; also Paris, Institute Néerlandais, 20 January–6 March 1977; Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, 19 March–30 April 1977 The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 230, 232 (ill.), 306, cat. 81, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

    Publications

    Wolfgang Stechow, “Verhaecht and Houck, Teacher and Pupil,” Master Drawings 13, no. 2 (summer, 1975), p. 147, under note 13.   Wolfgang Stechow, Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolours in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (Oberlin: Oberlin College, 1976), p. 52, under no. 243.   T. Gerszi, “Joos de Momper als Zeichner, Teil 2” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, XXXVI (1994), pp. 166–67, fig. 1.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Joos de Momper / Flemish, 1564–1635
    Date
    late 1590s
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown ink wash and touches of black ink wash, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper
    Dimensions
    27.8 × 42.5 cm (11 × 16 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Flanders
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment
    Accession no.
    2014.982

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