Imaginary Mountain Landscape, Jan van Aken, c. 1652

Identification

Title(s)

Imaginary Mountain Landscape

Object type

drawing

Object number

RP-T-1889-A-2029

Inscriptions / marks

watermark
monogram: ‘IVA’
mark: ‘L. 1450’

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Jan van Aken

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1652

Material and Technique

Physical features

pen and brown ink, with point of brush and grey ink and grey wash, over black chalk and some graphite; framing line in brown ink

Material

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 186 mm × width 299 mm

Subject

What

rocks

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

Acquisition

purchase 1889

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Jacob de Vos Jbzn (1803-82), Amsterdam (L. 1450); his widow, Abrahamina Henrietta de Vos-Wurfbain (1808-83), Amsterdam; sale, Jacob de Vos Jbzn, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 22 May 1883 sqq., no. 637, with one other drawing (inv. no. RP-T-1889-A-2028), fl. 15, to the dealer Georg Carl Valentin Schöffer for the Vereniging Rembrandt (L. 2135);{Note RMA.} from whom, to the museum (L. 2228), 1889

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Land en water : Hollandse tekeningen uit de 17de eeuw in het Rijksprentenkabinet, Marijn Schapelhouman, cat.nr. 90

Persistent URL

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