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A Castle on a Crag in a Mountainous Landscape

Joos de Momper, II · late 1590s

Provenance

Ownership history

Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919). Probably, Nicolaas Beets (1878–1963), Amsterdam; sold to I.Q. (Johan Quirijn) van Regteren Altena (1899–1980), Amsterdam, Oct. 19, 1929 [stamp (Lugt 4617) verso, lower left, in black; Inventory book: '769. t. de Momper rotsen en burg']; by descent; sold, Christie’s, London, July 10, 2014, lot 3, to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Meesterwerken uit vier eeuwen: 1400–1800, 1938, no. 304.
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Tekeningen van Jan van Eyck tot Rubens, 17 December 1948–1 February 1949, no. 55.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, De Van Eyck à Rubens: Dessins de Maîtres Flamands, March–April 1949, no. 69.
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, De Van Eyck à Rubens: Les Maîtres Flamands du Dessin, 1949, no. 71.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rijksprentenkabinet, Hercules Seghers en zijn voorlopers, 1967, no. V.42 (cover image of exhibition catalogue/booklet).
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Le Cabinet d’un Amateur, 25 November 1976– 6 March 1977, no. 89, pl. 27; also Paris, Institute Néerlandais, 20 January–6 March 1977; Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, 19 March–30 April 1977
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 230, 232 (ill.), 306, cat. 81, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Literature

Wolfgang Stechow, “Verhaecht and Houck, Teacher and Pupil,” Master Drawings 13, no. 2 (summer, 1975), p. 147, under note 13.
Wolfgang Stechow, Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolours in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (Oberlin: Oberlin College, 1976), p. 52, under no. 243.
T. Gerszi, “Joos de Momper als Zeichner, Teil 2” Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, XXXVI (1994), pp. 166–67, fig. 1.

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