Waterfall in the Chartreuse Mountains

Waterfall in the Chartreuse Mountains

RP-T-1905-85

draftsman (artist): Frederik de Moucheron, Amsterdam (possibly)

c. 1669

pen and brown ink, point of brush with grey ink, with grey wash, over traces of black chalk; framing line in black ink (partially trimmed)

height 448 mm x width 337 mm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1904-01-19

Public domain

probably commissioned by Laurens van der Hem (1621-1678), Amsterdam; ? his sale, Amsterdam (H. and T. Boom), 18 April 1684, Album V, in no. 19 (‘Verscheyde Gesighten van Vrankrijk op Atlas pampier’); …; ? sale, Hendrik van der Vught (1675-1744, Dordrecht), Amsterdam (B. de Bosch), 17 April 1745, Album 12; …; ? sale, Hendrik Tersmitten jr, Heer van Spaland (1709-1753, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (J. de Bary et al.), 23 September 1754 _sqq._, in Album V, to Gabriel Huquier I (1695-1772), Paris;{According to Bolten 1967, p. 86.} his sale, Paris, 1 July 1771 _sqq._, in no. 46, or in no. 47; …; collection Chevalier Jean Louis Antoine le Vaillant de Damery (1723-1803), Paris (L. 2862); …; sale, Berlin (Süddeutscher Kunstfreund), 8 June 1896, no. 456; …; sale, René Jacques della Faille de Waerloos (1830-1902, Antwerp), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 19 January 1904, no. 253, fl. 26, to the dealer J.H. Odink, Amsterdam, from whom, with 190 other drawings, fl. 1,000.00 for all, through mediation of Vereniging Rembrandt, to the museum (L. 2228), 1905

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