The town of Geervliet and part of Hof van Putten Castle

Roelant Roghman, c. 1646 - c. 1647

This drawing is part of a long rectangular drawing that was once cut in two. The right section is now in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. The original scene represented both the Zuid-Holland town of Geervliet and the walled Hof van Putten Castle. Despite missing its right side, the charming drawing can stand alone thanks to the cropping of the tree in the foreground and the painterly effect of the brush and grey wash.

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-1887-A-1384
  • Dimensionsheight 187 mm x width 294 mm
  • Physical characteristicsblack chalk, with grey wash; framing line in brown ink

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • The town of Geervliet and part of Hof van Putten Castle
    • View of the Village of Geervliet with the Church and the Outer Walls of Huis Geervliet (Hof van Putten) on the Right

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-T-1887-A-1384

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Creation

  • Creation

    draftsman (artist): Roelant Roghman, Geervliet

  • Dating

    c. 1646 - c. 1647

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    black chalk, with grey wash; framing line in brown ink

  • Dimensions

    height 187 mm x width 294 mm

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Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1887-03

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; ? collection Hillebrant Bentes I (1591-1652), Amsterdam;{Van der Wyck/Niemeijer 1989, pp. 6-7.} by descent to Hillebrant Bentes II (1677-1708), Amsterdam; his sale, Amsterdam, 16 October 1708;{According to an advertisement in the ‘Amsterdamse Courant’, 6 October 1708; Dudok van Heel 1975, p. 170, no. 122.} …; collection Christiaan van Hoek (1643-1715), Amsterdam and ‘Ouderhoek’, near Loenen aan de Vecht, by 1711;{According to Smids 1711, p. 100.} his son, Anthony van Hoek (1674-1719), Amsterdam and ‘Ouderhoek’, near Loenen aan de Vecht;{According to Bruijn 1719, p. 24.} his cousin, Jan de Wolff (1680-1735), Amsterdam and ‘Ouderhoek’, near Loenen aan de Vecht;{According to a no longer extant list by Louis-Philippe Serrurier, circa 1730, mentioned by Muller 1878, p. XVII, and Muller 1907, pp. VI and VII.} …; sale, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-98, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 3 March 1800 sqq., Album KK, nos. 1-6 (‘Inhoudende Teekeningen, alle gezigten van Huizen en kasteelen in de Sticht te Utrecht, meesterlijk naar het leven geteekend door Roeland Rogman, met zwart Kryt en O.I. Inkt’), with 240 other drawings, fl. 2,000.00 for all, to the dealer C.S. Roos, Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Jacob de Vos Jbzn (1803-78), Amsterdam (L. 1450); his widow, Abrahamina Henrietta de Vos-Wurfbain (1808-83), Amsterdam; sale, Jacob de Vos Jbzn, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 22 May 1883 sqq., no. 446, with two other drawings, fl. 41 for all, to C.G.V. Schöffer for the Vereniging Rembrandt (L. 2135); from whom acquired by the museum (L. 2228), 1887

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