River Landscape
Philips de Koninck . Netherlands. 1650-1660. pen and brown ink, brown wash, black chalk heightened with white on paper. Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III. 1811.82.
Marks/Inscriptions
- arms of Amsterdam (watermark, )
- "Rembrant" (inscription, former mount, graphite)
- "p ko" (cf. Broos 1981, p. 161, fig 8) (inscription, verso, red chalk)
- "p - koning" (cf. Broos 1981, p. 161, fig. 1-2) (inscription, verso, graphite)
- "philip konink" (inscription, verso, graphite)
- "LT" (see Broos 1981, cat. no. 43) (inscription, verso, pen and brown ink)
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)
- Old Master Drawings from the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Timken Museum of Art (5/13/2005, 8/14/2005)
- Nature Inhabited. Bowdoin College Museum of Art (4/20/1995, 6/4/1995)
- Drawing on Basics. Bowdoin College (10/14/1993, 12/19/1993)
- 17th Century Dutch Landscape Drawings. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2/20/1988, 5/29/1988)
- Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College. (5/17/1985, 6/29/1986)
- Baroque Drawings. Bowdoin College (2/3/1981, 3/5/1981)
- Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings and Selected Prints. Vassar College (3/28/1976, 5/7/1976)
- The Rembrandt Tercentenary. The Art Institute of Chicago (10/21/1969, 4/5/1970)
Bibliography
Type: catalogue Author: Henry Johnson Document Title: Catalogue of the Bowdoin College Art Collections Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 49 Remarks: (as Rembrandt) Publisher: Bowdoin College Section Title: Pt. I, The Bowdoin Drawings Date: 1885 Author: Rev. F. H. Allen Document Title: The Bowdoin Collection Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: pt. 1 Reference: no. 1, 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. 4 Remarks: (as Rembrandt imitator, suggests Koninck, per Valentiner) Section Title: Drawings by Old Masters at Bowdoin College Ascribed to Northern Schools: II Date: 1914 Type: catalogue Author: Bowdoin College Museum of Art Document Title: Bowdoin Museum of Fine Arts, Walker Art Building Edition: 4th Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Reference: no. 49 Remarks: (as Rembrandt) Publisher: Bowdoin 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: Werner Sumowski Document Title: Drawings of the Rembrandt School Publ. Place: New York Location: vol. 6 Reference: no. 150ix, 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 Bowdoin College Publ. Place: Brunswick, Maine Location: pp. 54-55 Reference: no. 24 Publisher: Bowdoin College Date: 1985 Author: Peter C. Sutton Document Title: A Guide to Dutch Art in America Publ. Place: Grand Rapids and Kampen Location: p. 33 Reference: fig. 40 Publisher: The Netherlands-American Amity Trust, Inc. Date: 1986 Type: exhibition catalogue Author: Frederik J. Duparc Document Title: Landscape in Perspective Publ. Place: Montreal Location: p. 142 Reference: no. 50 (repr. b&w) Publisher: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Section Title: Drawings by Rembrandt and his Contemporaries Date: 1988