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Landscape with the Village of Schenkenschanz, Gelderland
Also known as: River Landscape
Inscriptions
signed, lower right, in black chalk: [artist's monogram: HS] f. ; VERSO, lower right, in brown ink: H. Saftleven / paysage vues genérales / à la plume noire, lavé de bistre / pièce capitale / Vente de A. G. de Visser / 8 Mars 1869. ; lower left, in graphite: Vente Ellinckhuysen / Amsterdam, 16 April 1879: / A[illegible, underlined] ; upper left, in graphite: 3 ; upper left, in brown ink: /3 ; center, in graphite: 313 [associated with collector's mark of Baron Adalbert von Lanna] ; lower left, in brown ink: 19f ; lower left, in graphite: D [12 ?] [12 underlined] due ; lower left, in ink?: 313 [masked] ; lower left, in graphite: n 314 [crossed out twice, partially masked] ; lower left, in ink?: Nº 137. [numerals crossed out, masked] ; lower left, in brown ink: 62[j ?] [crossed out in graphite, partially masked, j added later?] ; lower left, in graphite: [unidentified paraph?] ; lower right, in graphite: 34[illegible, crossed out, partially masked] ; lower right: [illegible, masked]
Exhibition history
Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961). Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965). Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967). Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968). Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982). Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983). National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). Northern Landscape Traditions: 16th and 17th Century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Herman Saftleven (Dutch, 1609–1685)
- Date
- 1600s
- Medium
- black chalk and brush and brown wash; framing lines in graphite (top) and black ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 51.2 x 21 cm (20 3/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- L. E. Holden Fund
- Accession no.
- 1961.37
Provenance
Private Collection, France 1869: [sale, La Haye, 8 March 1869, expert A.G. de Visser] Ignatius Franciscus Ellinckhuysen, Rotterdam 1879: [sale, Amsterdam, 16 April, 1879] Baron Adalbert von Lanna, Prague 1910: [sale, H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart , 6-11 May 1910] Prince of Liechtenstein Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich Leopold Ruzicka, Zurich 1961: [Mr. and Mrs. Walter Feilchenfeldt] Private Collection, France; [sale, La Haye, 8 March 1869, director A.G. de Visser, p. 12, lot 261] (according to notation on verso of drawing and note in departmental file). Ignatius Franciscus Ellinckhuysen, Rotterdam (L. 3007, not stamped, according to Gutekunst cat.); [his sale, Amsterdam, 16 April, 1879, directors Muller, v. Gogh] (according to notation on verso of Drawing). Baron Adalbert von Lanna, Prague (L. 2773, verso, center, in black ink); [his sale, H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart , 6-11 May 1910, vol. 2, p. 54, lot 486] (photocopy of cat. in departmental file). Prince of Liechtenstein (not stamped, not in Lugt, according to letter of 15 March 1977 from Mrs. Feilchenfeldt to Jane Glaubinger in departmental file). Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich (not stamped, not in Lugt, according to letter from Mrs. Feilchenfeldt). Leopold Ruzicka, Zurich (not stamped, not in Lugt, according to letter from Mrs. Feilchenfeldt); [Mr. and Mrs. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich]
More by Herman Saftleven in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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