Mountain Landscape in Tirol with Chamois

Mountain Landscape in Tirol with Chamois

SK-A-4927

signature: ‘Tavenraat’

A landscape with towering mountains and insignificant human figures and animals in the foreground are typical elements of a Romantic composition. Tavenraat fell under the spell of the landscape while travelling through Tirol and made countless drawings and oil sketches of it. Here he painted the morning mist in bold gradations of violet. The small mountain hut and the miniscule group of shepherds with their flock make the mountains seem even higher.

painter: Johannes Tavenraat

c. 1858

olieverf op paneel

• depth 5.7 cm
• height 26.0 cm x width 23.0 cm x thickness 1.0 cm

purchase 1997

Public domain

…; collection Ms A.B.W. Jonquière, 1965;{Leiden 1965, p. 17, no. 84.}…; collection Dirk Albert Hoogendijk (1895-1975), Bergen;{RMA Archive, Hoogendijk, D.W.W., internal note dd. 14 May 1997; D.A. Hoogendijk was no longer active as a dealer.} his son, D.W.W. Hoogendijk, Utrecht; from whom, fl. 70,000, with five other objects, to the museum, 1997

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