Moonlit River Landscape with Fishermen

Hendrick Avercamp, c. 1625

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-1948-397
  • Dimensionsheight 144 mm x width 195 mm
  • Physical characteristicspen and brown and black ink, with opaque watercolour; framing line in grey, with a gold-coloured border

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Moonlit River Landscape with Fishermen

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-T-1948-397

  • Part of catalogue

Creation

  • Creation

    draftsman (artist): Hendrick Avercamp

  • Dating

    c. 1625

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    pen and brown and black ink, with opaque watercolour; framing line in grey, with a gold-coloured border

  • Dimensions

    height 144 mm x width 195 mm

This work is about

  • Subject

Exhibitions

Acquisition and rights

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1948

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; ? sale, Michiel Laars (?-1763, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (Blinkvliet de Winter), 9 April 1764 sqq., Album B, no. 78 (‘Een Manescheyntje, door Van Kampen, en een door Berkheyde’), with one other drawing;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Johann August Gottlieb Weigel (1773-1846), Leipzig;{According to the inscription on the verso.} his sons, Rudolph Weigel (1804-67), Leipzig, and Theodor Oswald Weigel (1812-81), Leipzig; sale, Johann August Gottlieb Weigel, Stuttgart (H.G. Gutekunst), 15 May 1883 sqq., no. 44 (‘Hendrik van Avercamp. Mondscheinlandschaft. [...] L. 19cm, H. 14 cm’); …; collection Freiherr Adalbert von Lanna (1836-1909), Prague (L. 2773); his sale, Stuttgart (H.G. Gutekunst), 6 May 1910 sqq., no. 62 (‘Hendrik van Averkamp. Flusslandschaft mit Fischerbooten bei Mondschein, links am Ufer zwei Männer und ein Hund. 14 ½ x 19 ½. Wirkungsvolle Aquarelle. Bezeichnet. Sammlung Weigel’), DM 460, to the dealer ‘Artaria’;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Johan II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1840-1929), Vaduz; his grandnephew, Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1906-89), Vaduz; sold through the mediation of the dealer W. Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, 1945-47;{Zurich 1972-73, unpag. introduction; L. 4398.} from whom, fl. 2500, to the museum (L. 2228), 1948

  • Remarks

    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.

Documentation

  • E. de Jongh, Fantasieën over de maan, in: Kunstschrift 6 (2008), p. 23. afb. 25 (datering: ca. 1625)

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