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Artist: Philips de Koninck (Dutch, 1619-1688)

Medium: pen and brown ink, brown wash, traces of black chalk on paper

Dimensions: 7 13/16 in. x 12 1/2 in. (19.9 cm. x 31.8 cm.)

Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ III

Accession Number: 1811.79

• (four letters difficult to decipher, probably a countermark)
  Type: watermark
  Location:
  Materials:
• "p ko" (cf. Boos 1981, p. 161, fig. 8)
  Type: inscription
  Location: verso
  Materials: red chalk
• "p - koning" (cf. Broos 1981, p. 161, figs. 1-2)
  Type: inscription
  Location: verso
  Materials: graphite
• "philip konink"
  Type: inscription
  Location: verso
  Materials: graphite
• "LT" (cf. Broos 1981, cat. no. 43)
  Type: inscription
  Location: verso
  Materials: pen and brown ink
• several indecipherable words [in artist's hand, according to Gerson in conversation]
  Type: inscription
  Location: verso
  Materials: pen and brown ink
• "No 52 Rembrant"
  Type: inscription
  Location: former mount (lost)
  Materials:

• James ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
• ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest

• Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College
  • ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
  • Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
  • University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
  • Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
• Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings and Selected Prints
• Drawing on Basics
  • ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art. ( 10/14/1993 - 12/19/1993)
• Prints/Drawings & Drawings/Prints, 1500-1800
  • ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art. ( 8/4/2009 - 9/20/2009)

Type: catalogue
Author: Henry Johnson
Document Title: Catalogue of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Art Collections
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 50
Remarks: (as Rembrandt)
Publisher: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College
Section Title: Pt. I, The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ Drawings
Date: 1885

Author: Rev. F. H. Allen
Document Title: The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ Collection
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Location: pt. 3
Reference: no. 2, repr.
Remarks: (as Rembrandt)
Section Title: [five parts of four illustrations each, with individual texts]
Date: 1886

Author: F. J. Mather, Jr.
Document Title: Art in America, vol. II, no. 2
Location: pp. 111-112
Reference: fig. 3
Remarks: (as Rembrandt imitator, suggests Koninck, per Valentiner)
Section Title: Drawings by Old Masters at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Ascribed to Northern Schools:  II
Date: 1914

Type: catalogue
Author: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art
Document Title: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building
Edition: 4th
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Reference: no. 50
Remarks: (as Rembrandt)
Publisher: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College
Section Title: Descriptive Catalogue of the . . .
Date: 1930

Author: H. Gerson
Document Title: Philips Koninck
Publ. Place: Berlin
Location: pp. 65, 140
Reference: no. Z20, repr. pl. 38
Remarks: (as Koninck)
Date: 1936

Author: W. Sumowski
Document Title: Drawings of the Rembrandt School
Publ. Place: New York
Location: vol. 6
Reference: no. 1531x, repr.
Date: 1979ff

Author: B. Broos
Document Title: Rembrandt en tekenaars uit sizn omgeving
Publ. Place: Amsterdam
Location: p. 157
Date: 1981

Type: exhibition catalogue
Author: David P. Becker
Document Title: Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College
Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine
Location: p. 56-57
Reference: no. 25
Publisher: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College
Date: 1985

Author: Peter C. Sutton
Document Title: A Guide to Dutch Art in America
Publ. Place: Grand Rapids
Location: p. 33
Reference: fig. 40
Publisher: The Netherlands-American Amity Trust, Inc.
Date: 1986
			
		

This drawing is closely related stylistically to the other ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ sheet (BCMA 1811.22), as pointed out by Sumowski. He also dates this view to the early 1660s. He dismisses Baer's suggestion that this composition is based upon Rembrandt's etching Hut behind the Picket Fence of 1648 (Bartsch 232), for this motif is a common one in landscapes of the period. As it is in the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ River Landscape, Koninck's treatment of the foliage and individual features of the fence and buildings is particularly subtle. In conversation, Haverkamp Begemann has suggested that the dark washes at the water's edge may have been added later.

Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College (Brunswick: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art, 1985).