Wooded Landscape with Figures

Former TitleRomantic Landscape with Figures

Artist Jacob van der Ulft (Dutch, born 1627)

Date17th century

MediumPen and wash with bistre ink

DimensionsOverall: 6 x 9 inches (15.24 x 22.86 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy

Object number81-30/89

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Dessins - paysages de l'école flamande et hollandaise: fin du XVIe - milieu du XVIII siècle: dans les collections de l'Université de Varsovie et du Musée poméranien de Gdansk, Warsaw University, 1959, no. 55, as Paysage avec un groupe d’arbres et vue sur la plaine au fond.

Gallery Label

This drawing is notable for the rich contrasts of light and shade, which give vitality to the scene. Van der Ulft spent some time in Italy, where such strong contrasts are more often found than in the grayer weather of his native Holland. So in this respect the drawing has a somewhat Italianate quality.

Provenance

Collection Godin-Deheselle;

Ernst Jürgen Otto (20^th century), Celle, Germany [1];

Purchased from Paul Drey Gallery, New York, by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, March 28, 1961-1980;

Bequeathed by Milton McGreevy to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

NOTES:

[1] Lugt 873b

Published References

Stanisława Sawicka, Dessins - paysages de l'école flamande et hollandaise: fin du XVIe - milieu du XVIII siècle: dans les collections de l'Université de Varsovie et du Musée poméranien de Gdansk, exh. cat. (Warsaw: Warsaw University, 1959), unpaginated, (repro.), as Paysage avec un groupe d’arbres et vue sur la plaine au fond.

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