Panorama with a Country House before an Inland Sea Artist: Cornelis Hendriksz. Vroom the Younger (Dutch, ca. 1591–1661)

ca. 1638–40

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

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

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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

Signed

Signed and dated with pen and brown ink at bottom L: "[?] CVROOM 164. 1640 or 1649" [CVR in monogram]; annotated with pencil on mount at bottom L: "Meyrhinge"

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