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Landscape Scene

Style of Louis Nicolas van Blarenberghe (French, 1716 - 1794)
Dateearly to mid-1800s
MediumWatercolor and gouache on vellum; Vermeil frame with enamel beads
DimensionsSight: 1 1/16 × 2 5/8 inches (2.7 × 6.67 cm)
Framed: 1 13/16 × 3 7/16 inches (4.6 × 8.73 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/162
InscribedInscribed erroneously on recto, bottom margin: “V Blarenberghe 1735”
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionMiniature painting of a landscape with a stone bridge.Exhibition History
The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 235, as Landscape Scene.
Provenance

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1958;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 265, as Landscape.

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 235, p. 77, (repro.), as Landscape Scene.

Blythe Sobol, “Style of Louis Nicolas van Blarenberghe, Landscape Scene, early to mid-1800s,” catalogue entry in Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, Blythe Sobol, and Maggie Keenan, The Starr Collection of Portrait Miniatures, 1500–1850: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, vol. 1, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.2244.

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