Erosion in a Hilly Landscape

1660 - 1712

Object data

pen and brown ink, with two shades of grey wash, over traces of graphite; traces of framing line in black ink (left, lower and right border)

height 181 mm × width 234 mm

Inscriptions

inscribed on verso, in graphite: upper right, 19; upper centre, augment [is]? 1.0 pro l […] haus; lower centre, Josua de Grave […]; next to that, Ruisdael
stamped on verso: lower centre, with the mark of Waller (L. 2760); below that, with the mark of the museum (L. 2228)

Technical notes

watermark: IHS (fragment)

Condition

Small holes scattered throughout the sheet; discoloration throughout

Provenance

…; purchased from S. Rood (?-?), Amsterdam, fl. 300, with support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds (L. 2760), to the museum (L. 2228), 1964 (as Josua de Grave)

Object number: RP-T-1964-135

Credit line: Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Entry

The subject of this heavily discolored drawing is uncommon within the oeuvres of Valentijn Klotz (c. 1646-1721), Barend Klotz (?-?) and Josua de Grave (1643-1712), all of whom rarely drew landscapes without figures or buildings. It appears that an initial brown ink drawing featuring rocks and shrubberies was left unfinished and a later hand added the grey ink and washes.

Carolyn Mensing, 2021

Citation

C. Mensing, 2021, 'circle of Valentijn Klotz and , Erosion in a Hilly Landscape, 1660 - 1712', in J. Turner (ed.), Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.51979

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