Landscape with Ruins

Artist Willem van Nieuwelandt II (Flemish, 1584 - 1636)

Dateearly 17th century

MediumPen and brown ink with brown wash

DimensionsOverall: 8 7/8 × 14 13/16 inches (22.54 × 37.62 cm)

Credit LineGift of Milton McGreevy

Object numberF59-64/1

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as Landscape with Ruins.

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 Landscape with Ruins.

Gallery Label

Rome in the late 16th and early 17th centuries was a magnet for Northern European artists, who considered their education incomplete without a visit to Italy and its antiquities. This drawing looks fresh enough to have been drawn from life. However, it is probably imaginary, though inspired by the scenery of the Roman Forum.

Provenance

Purchased from H.M. Calmann, London, by Milton McGreevy (1903–1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, by November 10, 1959;

Given by Milton McGreevy to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

Published References

Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 22, (repro.), as Landscape with Ruins.

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