The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 4, 2022

Mountainous Landscape

c. 1680

Nicolaes Berchem

(Dutch, 1620-1683)

Netherlands, 17th century

Brush and black ink, brush and gray wash, and black chalk; framing lines in black and brown ink

Support: Cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 30.4 x 52 cm (11 15/16 x 20 1/2 in.)

Delia E. Holden Fund 1958.410

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower left, in black ink: NBerchem [N and B in ligature] f. ; VERSO, center, in graphite: 1090 [circled] / 3 1/2 Lat / 1 5/8 2432 104 75 / - ; lower left, in graphite: [illegible, erased] ; lower left, in graphite(?): Berghem ; lower left, in graphite: Nº 555.

Provenance
Mathias Komor, New York (Lugt 1882a, verso, lower left, in blue ink)
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 125 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 125 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 163 archive.org
Exhibition history

Landscape. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 9-April 22, 1962).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).

Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).

Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 11-October 10, 1965).

Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-April 1, 1967).

Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 29-June 6, 1967).

Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art (July 10-September 2, 1973).

Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (January 28-March 13, 1977); Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (April 1-May 15, 1977); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (June 1-July 15, 1977).

Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

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