Landscape with the Village of Schenkenschanz, Gelderland

1600s

Herman Saftleven

Herman Saftleven (Dutch, 1609–1685)

Drawings

Landscape with the Village of Schenkenschanz, Gelderland, 1600s. Herman Saftleven (Dutch, 1609–1685). Black chalk and brush and brown wash; framing lines in graphite (top) and black ink; sheet: 51.2 x 21 cm (20 3/16 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, L. E. Holden Fund 1961.37

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Saftleven, Herman, the younger
Classification: Drawing
Formatted Medium: black chalk and brush and brown wash; framing lines in graphite (top) and black ink
Medium: black, chalk, brush, brown, wash, framing, lines, graphite, top, ink
Dimensions: Sheet: 51.2 x 21 cm (20 3/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: signed, lower right, in black chalk: [artist's monogram: HS] f. ; VERSO, lower right, in brown ink: H. Saftleven / paysage vues genérales / à la plume noire, lavé de bistre / pièce capitale / Vente de A. G. de Visser / 8 Mars 1869. ; lower left, in graphite: Vente Ellinckhuysen / Amsterdam, 16 April 1879: / A[illegible, underlined] ; upper left, in graphite: 3 ; upper left, in brown ink: /3 ; center, in graphite: 313 [associated with collector's mark of Baron Adalbert von Lanna] ; lower left, in brown ink: 19f ; lower left, in graphite: D [12 ?] [12 underlined] due ; lower left, in ink?: 313 [masked] ; lower left, in graphite: n 314 [crossed out twice, partially masked] ; lower left, in ink?: Nº 137. [numerals crossed out, masked] ; lower left, in brown ink: 62[j ?] [crossed out in graphite, partially masked, j added later?] ; lower left, in graphite: [unidentified paraph?] ; lower right, in graphite: 34[illegible, crossed out, partially masked] ; lower right: [illegible, masked]
Departments: Drawings
Accession Number: 1961.37
Credit Line: L. E. Holden Fund
Exhibitions: Year in Review (1961), Drawings, Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands, Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection, Old Master Prints and Drawings, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings, Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics, Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, National Schools of Style, Northern Landscape Traditions: 16th and 17th Century Prints and Drawings
Rights Statement: CC0