Two Travellers in a Subterranean Grotto

Two Travellers in a Subterranean Grotto

RP-T-1899-A-4285(V)

Rotslandschap met twee figuren bij een bergbeek.

• draftsman (artist): Jan Asselijn
• draftsman (artist): Pieter Bodding van Laer [rejected attribution]

c. 1636 - c. 1646

point of brush and dark grey ink, with grey wash and opaque white, over black chalk, on blue paper

height 269 mm x width 403 mm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1899

Public domain

…; ? collection Abraham van Broyel (?-1759 or before), Amsterdam;{According to the catalogue for the sale, William Pitcairn Knowles, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 379.} his sale, Amsterdam (H. de Leth), 30 October 1759 sqq., no. 678, as Pieter van Laer (‘Een Italiaansche Pleisteir-plaats by een Ruine, zeer fraai op blaauw Papier met zwart kryt en Oost-Indische Ink ten wit gehoogd, hoog 11, breed 16 duim. [275 x 406 mm]’), fl. 18:15:- to Johann Edler Goll von Franckenstein (1722-85), Amsterdam and Velzen;{Copy RKD.} …; ? collection ‘Rogers’{According to Van Regteren Altena 1964.}; …; collection Johann August Gottlieb Weigel (1773-1846), Leipzig;{According to the catalogue for the 1895 Pitcairn Knowles sale.} his sale, Stuttgart (Gutekunst), 15 May 1883 sqq., no. 549 (‘Pieter van Laer. Bergige Landschaft. Im Vordergrunde lagende Jäger und Hunde. Schwarze Kreide und Tusche auf blauem Papier, weiß gehöht. Bezeichnet. Auf der Rückseite eine Felsenstudie mit Wasserfall. Bezeichnet: Jan Asselyn. L. 41, H. 27 cm’), fl. 25, to ‘HG’ [Heinrich Georg Gutekunst];{Copy RMA.} …; collection William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 379 (‘Pieter van Laer dit Bamboche, Halte de chasseurs. Très-beau croquis. Au verso, un dessin de Jan Asselyn. Collections Boyers et Weigel. Pierre noire et encre de Chine, sur papier bleu. H. 26, l. 41 cent.’), fl. 5, to the dealer F. Muller for the Vereniging Rembrandt;{Copy RMA; note RMA.} from whom, fl. 6, to the museum (L. 2228), 1899

To refer to this object, please use the following persistent URL:

https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200117126