Mountain Landscape with a Ferry

Mountain Landscape with a Ferry

RP-T-1897-A-3395

• mark: ‘L. 2643’
• signature: ‘Jan van Aken f/ h. 6 dm/ b:11 [of 12] dm’
• number: ‘No. 852’
• annotation: ‘J. van Aken’
• watermark

• draftsman (artist): Jan van Aken, Amsterdam (possibly)
• draftsman (artist): Isaac de Moucheron

c. 1652 - c. 1660

point of brush and grey and some greyish-brown ink, over black chalk and some graphite; later additions by Isaac de Moucheron with point of brush and pen and black ink, some opaque white; framing lines in graphite or pencil, black and brown ink

height 154 mm x width 293 mm

purchase 1897

Public domain

…; collection Sybrand Feitama II (1694-1758), Amsterdam;{According to Feitama s.a. (1746), fol. 1 (‘1 kleiner Berggezicht, gekocht het éen A° 1710’).} his sale, Amsterdam (B. de Bosch et al.), 16 October 1758 sqq., Album G, no. 34 (‘(Jan van Aken en J. de Moucheron) Een Bergachtig Landschap, met een Rivier, waar over vaart een Pont met een Hooywagentje, geteekend als `t vorige (met de pen en Oostind. Inkt): h. 6, br. 11 ¼ d. (152 x 286 mm)’), fl. 15.5, to Jan Matthias Kok (1720-71), Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-98), Amsterdam (L. 3002); his sale, Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 3 March 1800 sqq., Album F, no. 46 (‘Twee stuks, een bergächtig en een heuvelächtig Landschap, met Geboomte en verder Stoffagie, zonächtig en uitvoerig met de Pen en O.I., door J. van Aken’), with one other drawing, fl. 40, to the dealer Bruno Tideman, Amsterdam, probably for Jacob Helmolt;{Copy RKD; cf. H.-U. Beck, ‘Der unbekannte Zeichnungssammler Lugt 2986b identifiziert: Jacob Helmolt in Haarlem’, Oud Holland 107 (1993), no. 4, p. 372.} collection Jacob Helmolt (1747-1808), Haarlem (L. 2986b); probably with his collection, en bloc, fl. 25,000 to a consortium of dealers (C.S. Roos, B. de Bosch, J.D. Bosch, R. Daams, Engelberts, Hulswit, A. Van der Willigen and Jonkheer Johan Goll van Franckenstein);{According to L. 2986b.} …; collection Hendrik van Cranenburg (1754-1832), Amsterdam;{According to the catalogue for the sale of Prof. Dr Friedrich Heimsoeth, Frankfurt-am-Main (F.A.C. Prestel), 5 May 1879 sqq., no. 1.} his sale, Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 26 October 1850 sqq., Album D, no. 91 (‘Van Aken. Paysage rocailleux; un bac passe rivière; lavé à l’encre brune’), fl. 8, to the dealer ‘Engelberts’;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Prof. Dr Friedrich Heimsoeth (1814-77), Bonn;{According to the catalogue for the sale of William Pitcairn Knowles, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 4.}; his sale, Frankfurt-am-Main (F.A.C. Prestel), 5 May 1879 sqq., no. 1, fl. 20, to William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 4, fl. 17, to the dealer H.J. Valk,{Copy RKD.} for the Vereniging Rembrandt;{Note RMA.} from whom, to the museum (L. 2228), 1897

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