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A Castle on a Crag in a Mountainous Landscape
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
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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