Mountainous Landscape near Düsseldorf

Gerard van Nijmegen, 1790

This untamed view of nature anticipates picturesque features of Romanticism. Van Nijmegen, though, was also inspired by 17th-century Dutch painters, such as Jacob van Ruisdael. He had seen the subject of this painting – a landscape with ruins and drovers driving an ox-wagon over a wooden bridge – while travelling along the Rhine in 1788. He described it in his journal.

  • Artwork typepainting
  • Object numberSK-A-4223
  • Dimensionsheight 62 cm x width 89 cm
  • Physical characteristicsoil on panel

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Mountainous Landscape near Düsseldorf

  • Object type

  • Object number

    SK-A-4223

  • Description

    Berglandschap met voerlieden, die een ossenwagen over een oude vervallen houten brug bij een boom drijven. Links een waterval en de ruïne van een kasteel op een heuveltop.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    signature and date: ‘G. van Nijmegen 1790’


Creation

  • Creation

    painter: Gerard van Nijmegen

  • Dating

    1790

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil on panel

  • Dimensions

    height 62 cm x width 89 cm


This work is about

  • Subject


Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Purchased with the support of the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1972

  • Copyright

  • Provenance

    …; sale, M. le Chevalier W. Gockinga †, de Groningue et al.[section W. Gockinga], Amsterdam (Van Pappelendam & Schouten), 14 August 1883 sqq., no. 98, fl. 500, to Jan Christiaan van Hattum van Ellewoutsdijk (1837-1909), Sliedrecht;{Copy RKD; note RMA.}….; ? sale, the countess of Ancaster et al.[section 'Various Properties'], London (Sotheby's), 14 June 1972, no. 148, £ 720, to F.D. Marshall;{Copy RMA.}…; sale, Mrs. J.S. Alston et al.[section 'Various Properties'], London (Christie’s), 17 November 1972, no. 36, fl. 31,813, to the dealer David Peel, London, for the museum, as a gift from the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop

  • 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.


Documentation

  • Paul Knolle, 'Landschap in de storm', Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt 21 (2011) nr. 1, p. 26-29.


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