About the Artwork
Village on a River with a Castle on a Hill
ca. 1600
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Flemish
Unknown
Pen and brown ink and red chalk on parchment
Sheet: 5 5/8 × 8 7/8 inches (14.3 × 22.5 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
34.102
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, upper edge, verso: .n Stifania io Egregio pictore Italo | depicta cum absito monte Sancti Georgy Inscribed, in pencil, upper left, verso: 10 Inscribed, in pencil, lower center, verso: Roelandt Savery 1576 - 1629
Provenance
B. Jolles [blue collector's mark [L. Suppl. 381a] on recto in lower right corner] (Dresden, Germany and Vienna, Austria)
1934, E. Speelman (London, England)
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 14 (1934): p. 57. [as Roelant Savery]
Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, p. 120, no. 60 (ill.).
Dunbar, Burton, L., Robert Munman, and Edward Olszewski, ed. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Northern European Drawings. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2012, p. 113, cat. 72 (ill.).
From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 9.
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Flemish, Village on a River with a Castle on a Hill, ca. 1600, pen and brown ink and red chalk on parchment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.102.
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