Alpine Landscape (View of Waltensburg)
Master of the Mountain Landscapes (formerly attributed to Pieter Bruegel & Jacob Savery) . Netherlands. ca. 1580-1630. pen and brown ink on paper. Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 1811.142.
Marks/Inscriptions
- "156 Waltersspurg" (inscription, top center, pen and brown ink)
- "den ouden breugol [?] No. 56" (inscription, verso, graphite)
Provenance
- James Bowdoin III (Collector, Boston) -1811
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811-
Exhibition History
- Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College. Bowdoin College (5/3/2017, 9/3/2017)
- The Art of The Deal. Bowdoin College Museum of Art (9/15/2010, 10/24/2010)
- Re-opening Exhibition: Great Graphics: Prints and Drawings 1470-1970. Bowdoin College (10/14/2007, 3/9/2008)
- Old Master Drawings from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Timken Museum of Art (5/13/2005, 8/14/2005)
- RSVP: Farewell Our Lovelies. Bowdoin College Museum of Art (11/2/2004, 12/23/2004)
- Pointed Pairings: The Valuing of Art. Bowdoin College Museum of Art (4/4/2002, 6/16/2002)
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (5/27/2001, 12/2/2001)
- Nature Inhabited. Bowdoin College Museum of Art (4/20/1995, 6/4/1995)
- Drawing on Basics. Bowdoin College (10/14/1993, 12/19/1993)
- Masterpieces from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Currier Museum of Art (9/5/1986, 10/19/1986)
- Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College. (5/17/1985, 6/29/1986)
- Drawings from Maine Collections. Colby College Museum of Art (5/14/1978, 7/16/1978)
- Pieter Bruegel der Ältere als Zeichner: Herkunft und Nachfolge. Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz (9/19/1975, 11/16/1975)
- Dürer to Bruegel: A Century of Humanism. Harvard University (1/7/1970, 2/21/1970)
- Prints and Drawings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (1/28/1968, 2/25/1968)
- Selection: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture from the Museum Collections. Bowdoin College Museum of Art (11/1/1967, 12/10/1967)
- Northern Renaissance. Harvard University (2/13/1967, 4/1/1967)
- European Drawings, 1450 - 1900. (2/25/1964, 3/28/1964)
- Masters of Landscape: East and West. (9/15/1963, 12/1/1963)
- Prints & Drawings of Pieter Bruegel The Elder. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (3/22/1961, 5/7/1961)
- Art Collections of New England Colleges. University of New Hampshire (10/13/1960, 11/13/1960)
- Old Master Drawings. The Newark Museum of Art (3/17/1960, 5/22/1960)
- 30th Anniversary Exhib.: Masterworks from University & College Art Collections. University of Kansas (2/22/1958, 3/30/1958)
- An Exhibition of Drawings. Colby College (4/27/1956, 5/23/1956)
- Chinese Landscape Painting. Cleveland Museum of Art (11/4/1954, 1/2/1955)
- Five Centuries of Drawings. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (10/1/1953, 11/30/1953)
- Landscape Drawings & Water-Colors: Bruegel to Cézanne. The Pierpont Morgan Library (1/31/1953, 4/11/1953)
- Masterpieces of Drawing - Diamond Jubilee Exhibition. Philadelphia Museum of Art (11/4/1950, 2/11/1951)
- Seventy Master Drawings. Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University (11/27/1948, 1/6/1949)
- A Thousand Years of Landscape East and West. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (10/24/1945, 12/9/1945)
- Drawings: Pieter Bruegel, the Elder. (3/2/1936, 4/15/1936)
- Drawings - Fourth Anniversary Exhibition. Lyman Allyn Museum (3/2/1936, 4/15/1936)
Bibliography
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