Landscape with Travelers at Rest

Artist Gillis Claesz. d' Hondecoeter (Dutch, 1575 - 1638)

Date17th century

MediumBlack chalk and brown ink on paper

DimensionsUnframed: 9 1/2 x 12 3/8 inches (24.13 x 31.45 cm)
Framed: 17 x 21 x 1 1/4 inches (43.18 x 53.34 x 3.175 cm)

Credit LineGift of Milton McGreevy

Object numberF59-65/9

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 20, as Landcape with Travelers at Rest.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat.

Reality and Fantasy: Land, Town and Sea, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 18, 2013-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Gallery Label

The contrast set up in this drawing between a group of trees and a distant panorama provides picturesque variety, a quality much favored by 17th-century Europeans. In the foreground, weary travelers are shown resting, while two other figures approach to the right, one of them carrying a basket on her head in a skillful balancing act. Behind her, a church tower rises above a wood.

Provenance

Dr. Georges Laporte, New York [1];

With Nathan Chaikin, New York, by April 24, 1959;

Purchased from Chaikin by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, April 24, 1959 [2];

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

NOTES:

[1] Nathan Chailkin invoice, April 24, 1959, NAMA Archives, MS007 Milton McGreevy Records.

[2] Ibid.

Published References

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 162, (repro.), as Landscape.

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 84-85, (repro.), as Landcape with Travelers at Rest.

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 69, (repro.), as Landscape with Traders at Rest.

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