Panorama with a Country House before an Inland Sea Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1638–40

Trained by his father, Hendrick, who specialized in marine painting, Cornelis Vroom the Younger focused instead on landscape painting and drawing. As in this drawing, he often chose a high viewpoint, creating a calm panorama distanced from noisy everyday life. Depicted with meticulous, delicate penwork, the dunes’ shadows and the bands of dark trees lead the eye back into the landscape. Two small figures near a wagon in the middle distance are visible, as are some ships on the water and a roof of a country house, but Vroom appears to have been more interested in a celebration of the characteristic Dutch landscape than in any human narrative.

Medium: Pen and brown ink
Dimensions: sheet: 11 1/2 × 17 5/8 in. (29.2 × 44.8 cm)
Credit Line: Egmont Collection, Yale Library Transfer
Accession Number: 1961.64.56
Geography: Made in The Netherlands
Culture: Dutch
Period: 17th century
Classification: Drawings
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance

John Percival, first Earl of Egmont (1683-1748); John T. Graves; Robert Hoe (sale New York, Anderson Auction Company, April 15-19, 1912, Library of Robert Hoe, Part III, A-K, no. 949); Yale
University Library (Anonymous Donor, 1957).

Bibliography

Lisa Hodermarsky, Suzanne Boorsch, and John J. Marciari, Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 27, 150–51, 250, no. 47, ill.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Marks

WM: Arms of Burgundy & Austria, similar to Churchill 266

Inscriptions

in graphite on mount at LL: "Meyrhinge"

Signed

in pen and brown ink at LL: "[?] CVROOM 164. 1640 or 1649" [CVR in monogram]

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