Mountainous Landscape near Düsseldorf

Mountainous Landscape near Düsseldorf

SK-A-4223

signature and date: ‘G. 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.

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

painter: Gerard van Nijmegen

1790

olieverf op paneel

height 62 cm x width 89 cm

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

purchase 1972

Public domain

…; 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

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.

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

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