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

…; collection Pieter Kikkert (1775-1855), Leiden and Vlaardingen, as part of an album containing 146 drawings and 3 prints;¹¹Note 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

For this small drawing, an attribution to Jan Baptist Weenix is considered possible by Anke van Wagenberg-ter Hoeven,²²Kindly 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

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)

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