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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
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Creation
Creation
draughtsman: 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
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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 10 December 2025 15:40:22).Footnotes
- 1Note RMA.
- 2Kindly communicated by email, 19 February 2017.