Rocky Valley with Castle
Framed: 17 × 21 × 1 1/4 inches (43.18 × 53.34 × 3.18 cm)
Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 31, erroneously as by Roelandt [sic] Savery, as Rocky Valley with Castle.
An Italian Panorama: The Romance of Ruins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 19, 2017-January 14, 2018, no cat., as Rocky Valley with Castle.This imaginary view may have been inspired by the scenery in the foothills of the Apennines near Rome, where many towns are perched on hills overlooking deep valleys. Dramatic panoramas like this were favorites of Northern artists in Rome, like the anonymous author of this drawing, since they recalled the Alpine scenery they would have seen on their journey south.
P.H. [1];
Dr. G. L. Laporte, New York [2];
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London, by 1919;
His posthumous sale, Drawings by the Old Masters from the Collections of Richard Ederheimer, New York and the late Charles Fairfax Murray, London, England, Anderson Galleries, New York, November 7, 1924, lot 197, as Landscape;
With Nathan Chaikin, New York, by April 24, 1959;
Purchased from Chaikin by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, April 24, 1959;
His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.
NOTES:
[1] A collector's mark with the initials 'P.H.' (Lugt 2084) appears on the lower left of the drawing. The identity of this collector is currently unknown.
[2] Laporte's collector's mark (Lugt 1170) appears on the lower right of the drawing.
“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 6, no. 4 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 23, erroneously as by Roelandt [sic] Savery, as Rocky Valley with Castle.
