A Castle on a Crag in a Mountainous Landscape

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Prints and Drawings

late 1590s

Joos de Momper
Flemish, 1564–1635

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Joos de Momper, II
Title: A Castle on a Crag in a Mountainous Landscape
Place: Flanders (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1595–1599
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown ink wash and touches of black ink wash, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed on verso of mount, upper left, in graphite: "14"; verso, lower right: "81"
Dimensions: 27.8 × 42.5 cm (11 × 16 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment
Reference Number: 2014.982
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Wolfgang Stechow, “Verhaecht and Houck, Teacher and Pupil,” Master Drawings 13, no. 2 (summer, 1975), p. 147, under note 13.
Wolfgang Stechow, Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolours in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (Oberlin: Oberlin College, 1976), p. 52, under no. 243.
T. Gerszi, “Joos de Momper als Zeichner, Teil 2” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, XXXVI (1994), pp. 166–67, fig. 1.

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Meesterwerken uit vier eeuwen: 1400–1800, 1938, no. 304.
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Tekeningen van Jan van Eyck tot Rubens, 17 December 1948–1 February 1949, no. 55.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, De Van Eyck à Rubens: Dessins de Maîtres Flamands, March–April 1949, no. 69.
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, De Van Eyck à Rubens: Les Maîtres Flamands du Dessin, 1949, no. 71.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rijksprentenkabinet, Hercules Seghers en zijn voorlopers, 1967, no. V.42 (cover image of exhibition catalogue/booklet).
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Le Cabinet d’un Amateur, 25 November 1976– 6 March 1977, no. 89, pl. 27; also Paris, Institute Néerlandais, 20 January–6 March 1977; Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, 19 March–30 April 1977
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 230, 232 (ill.), 306, cat. 81, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919). Probably, Nicolaas Beets (1878–1963), Amsterdam; sold to I.Q. (Johan Quirijn) van Regteren Altena (1899–1980), Amsterdam, Oct. 19, 1929 [stamp (Lugt 4617) verso, lower left, in black; Inventory book: ‘769. t. de Momper rotsen en burg’]; by descent; sold, Christie’s, London, July 10, 2014, lot 3, to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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