Landscape with a Ruin

attributed to Jan Baptist Weenix, c. 1647 - c. 1650

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-1981-263
  • Dimensionsheight 144 mm x width 95 mm
  • Physical characteristicsred chalk; framing line in red chalk

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Identification

  • Title(s)

    Landscape with a Ruin

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-T-1981-263

  • Part of catalogue

Creation

  • Creation

    draftsman (artist): attributed to Jan Baptist Weenix, Amsterdam (possibly)

  • Dating

    c. 1647 - c. 1650

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    red chalk; framing line in red chalk

  • Dimensions

    height 144 mm x width 95 mm

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds, the Belport Familienstiftung and a contribution from the J.A.Z. Count van Regteren Limpurg Bequest

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1981

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; collection Pieter Kikkert (1775-1855), Leiden and Vlaardingen, as part of an album containing 146 drawings and 3 prints;{Note RMA.} by descent to Mrs E. Peereboom, Haarlem; from whom, as part of the album (inv. no. RP-T-1981-182-328) and another album with 90 drawings (inv. no. RP-T-1981-92-181), fl. 88,000, to the museum (L. 2228), with the support of the F.G. Wallerfonds, the Belport Familiestichting and the J.A.Z. Graaf van Regteren Limpurg Bequest, 1981

  • Remarks

    Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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Jan Baptist Weenix (attributed to)

Landscape with a Ruin

? Amsterdam, c. 1647 - c. 1650

Technical notes

watermark: lower part of a foolscap with nine points; cf. Laurentius 2007, I, nos. 493-94 (The Hague: 1647)

Provenance

…; collection Pieter Kikkert (1775-1855), Leiden and Vlaardingen, as part of an album containing 146 drawings and 3 prints;1Note RMA. by descent to Mrs E. Peereboom, Haarlem; from whom, as part of the album (inv. no. RP-T-1981-182-328) and another album with 90 drawings (inv. no. RP-T-1981-92-181), fl. 88,000, to the museum (L. 2228), with the support of the F.G. Wallerfonds, the Belport Familiestichting and the J.A.Z. Graaf van Regteren Limpurg Bequest, 1981

Object number: RP-T-1981-263

Credit line: Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds, the Belport Familienstiftung and a contribution from the J.A.Z. Count van Regteren Limpurg Bequest

Entry

For this small drawing, an attribution to Jan Baptist Weenix is considered possible by Anke van Wagenberg-ter Hoeven,2Kindly communicated by email, 19 February 2017. author of the 2019 catalogue raisonné of the paintings of Jan Baptist Weenix and his son Jan Weenix (1642-1719). Given the use of red chalk and the drawing’s billowing contours, marked accents and soft hatching, it is generally linked to (admittedly larger) drawings such as the museum’s inv. no. RP-T-1948-594. Apparently, the present sheet was made as a quick sketch of an imaginary landscape. Drawn on mid-seventeenth-century Dutch paper, it was possibly executed after the artist’s return from Rome. Theoretically, it could also have been made while travelling, provided that the artist took a stock of Dutch paper with him, but the rather raw execution compared with genuine travel sketches such as inv. no. RP-T-1942-40 or a drawing in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels (inv. no. 4060/3983), supports the conclusion of a post-Italy date.

Annemarie Stefes, 2018

Literature

J.F. Heijbroek and M. Schapelhouman, ‘Verborgen schatten. Twee kunstboeken met voornamelijk figuurstudies’, Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 49 (2001), no. 2/3, p. 288; http://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2018/03/jan-baptist-weenix-and-son-jan-weenix.html (accessed 7 July 2025)

Citation

A. Stefes, 2018, 'attributed to Jan Baptist Weenix, _, Amsterdam, c. 1647 - c. 1650', in J. Turner (ed.), _(under construction) Drawings 2, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200555638

(accessed 15 March 2026 13:31:56).

Footnotes

  • 1Note RMA.
  • 2Kindly communicated by email, 19 February 2017.