Landscape with river

Physical description

Landscape: a river, on which are two boats, winding through a valley, cliffs and trees in the right foreground.

Place of Origin

Antwerp, Belgium (probably, drawn)

Date

ca.1634 (drawn)

Artist/maker

Anthony Van Dyck, born 1599 - died 1641 (artist)

Dimensions

Height: 8.1 cm, Width: 21 cm

Object history note

Dalton Bequest. From the collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Descriptive line

Anthony van Dyck; pen and ink drawing of a landscape and river bank, ca.1634

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Horst Vey, Die Zeichnungen Anton van Dycks (Brussels: Verlag Arcade, 1962), no. 298
Martin Royalton-Kisch, The Light of Nature: Landscape Drawings and Watercolours by Van Dyck and His Contemporaries (London: British Museum Press, 1999), pp. 24 and 120

Production Note

In his catalogue raisonne of Van Dyck's drawings, Horst Vey rejected this drawing as a copy (Vey 298); however, Royalton-Kisch disagrees on the grounds that the treatment of the scrub closely resembles that in an undisputed drawing of Rye (1634) in the Uffizi. See Martin Royalton-Kisch, The Light of Nature: Landscape Drawings and Watercolours by Van Dyck and His Contemporaries (London: British Museum Press, 1999), pp.24 and 120.

Categories

Drawings

Collection code

PDP