Landscape with Church and River Valley

Circle of: Domenico Campagnola (in circa 1525-1550)

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Title	Landscape with Church and River Valley
Material and technique	Pen and brown ink
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 128 mm Width 298 mm
Artists	Circle of: Domenico Campagnola Artist: Anoniem
Accession number	I 410 (PK)
Credits	Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1940
Creation date	in circa 1525-1550
Watermark	# fragment with star? (30 x 50 mm, half oval sideways, below centre, on P6-7 of 11P, vH)
Inscriptions	# [unclear] 'Wellesley – July 1866 / Campagnola o? / no. 1607' (verso, centre, pencil), 'Titian' (verso, below right, pen and black ink)
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Provenance	Henry Wellesley (1791-1866, L.1384 deest), Oxford; his sale, London (Sotheby) 25.06.1866, lot 1607 (Titian, BP 0/2/6 to Noseda); Art dealer Noseda (L.1948), London; Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913, L.1433)**, London; Robert Roupell (1798-1886, L.2234), London; his sale, London (Christie) 12-14.07.1887, probably lot 864 (Titian, BP 10 to [...]); Art dealer Julius W. Böhler (1883-1966), Lucerne; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1929 (Domenico Campagnola); D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Literature	Walker 1941, Appendix p. 16, no. 107; Nickel 2017, vol. 2, pp. 539 540 no. X 160 (D. Campagnola, circle)
Material	Brown ink > Ink > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Pen > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Geographical origin	Italy > Southern Europe > Europe
Place of manufacture	Padua > Veneto region > Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Gert Jan van der Sman

The swift use of the pen allows us to locate this landscape drawing in the milieu of Domenico Campagnola. To the left of the centre a farmhouse and a small church have been placed in the space in a rather awkward way, an unrefined manner that differs too greatly from Domenico’s style to justify an attribution to the artist himself. The sheet was probably made in the second quarter of the sixteenth century.

In the composition of the image, this landscape drawing is similar to an anonymous sixteenth-century Venetian landscape drawing that was worked up by Rembrandt (1606-1669).^[1] This indicates that the Rotterdam drawing was probably cut off at the top, but it would not have been much bigger originally. The drawing can be described as a rough impression of a rustic landscape in the style of Campagnola and Titian (c.1488-1576), without a reference to a specific topographical location. On the left a few small, schematically rendered figures can be seen climbing up next to a railing.