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Zuylen Castle, near Utrecht (recto)/Ruin of the huis Ter Kleef, near Haarlem (verso)

1646

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Roelant Roghman

(Dutch, 1627–1692)

Netherlands

Black chalk and wetted charcoal on cream laid paper

Image: 30.6 x 43.3 cm (12 1/16 x 17 1/16 in.); Sheet: 38.2 x 50.7 cm (15 1/16 x 19 15/16 in.)

Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.145

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

In the 1640s, the artist Roelant Roghman spent two years traveling by foot and drawing manor houses, fortresses, and civic buildings throughout the Netherlands.

Description

Zuijlen Castle Near Utrecht by Dutch artist Roelant Roghman is one of more than 200 drawings the artist made featuring castles, manor houses, and fortresses during a tour around the Netherlands. The artist traveled on foot to capture the present state of the buildings after a long and protracted war with Spain. He used large sheets of paper and combined ink wash and charcoal, capturing the buildings on the spot and then embellishing each with landscape elements.

Inscriptions

Inscription

In black ink, recto, lower left: "R. Roghman (signed)"

Inscription

in black ink, recto, lower right: "Zuylen"

Roelant Roghman

Dutch painter, etcher, and draftsman, baptized 1627, buried 1692

Provenance

George, 2nd Earl of Warwick [1746-1816]

by descent to his brother, the Honorable Charles Greville

by descent to a private collection

June 17, 1936

(Sotheby's, London, United Kingdom)

Private Collection, London, thence by descent

(Le Claire Kunst, Hamburg, Germany)

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH

March 2, 2020

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Exhibition history

Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).