A rocky landscape with animals

Details

ROELANDT SAVERY (KORTRIJK 1576-1639 UTRECHT)
A rocky landscape with animals
oil on canvas
24 x 40 ¾ in. (61.4 x 103.5 cm.)

Provenance

Dr. Arnold Raestad (1878-1945) and Märta Stjernstedt Raestad (1882 -1969), Oslo, by 1918, and by descent to their daughter,
Tove Raestad Fahlén (1911-1995) and her husband, Torbjörn Fahlén (1903-1993), Sweden, by 1945, where acquired by the following,
with Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam, by 1966, where acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on 13 September 1967.

Literature

Advertisement, Die Weltkunst, 15 June 1967, p. 595, illustrated.
'Accessions of American and Canadian Museums October-December 1967,' Art Quarterly, III, Summer 1968, p. 207.
L.J. Bol, Holländische Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts nahe den grossen Meistern, Braunschweig, 1969, p. 124, fig. 105.
J.A. Spicer, The Drawings of Roelandt Savery, Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, New Haven, 1979, pp. xxv and 107, no. F316.
A.R. Murphy, European Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue, Boston, 1985, p. 260, illustrated.
K.J. Müllenmeister, Roelant Savery, Kortrijk 1576-1639 Utrecht: Hofmaler Kaiser Rudolf II in Prag: die Gemälde mit kritischem Œuvrekatalog, Freren, 1988, pp. 115 and 270-271, no. 161, illustrated.
M. Fahlén, Märtas Tavla: Ett Oväntat Möte med Konst, Kungälv, 2015, pp. 8-9, 82-96, 101 and 108, illustrated.

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Ensayo del lote

Kürt J. Müllenmeister recognized this painting as one of very few landscapes by Roelandt Savery with almost no middle ground (loc. cit.). The foreground is bookended by a wooded area with mountain goats and deer left and a rocky cliff at right. At center a waterfall rushes down and out of view, opening into a wide landscape beyond. Savery's carefully observed details, such as the upturned trees along the banks of the falls and the swans bathing together, were inspired by an extended journey he undertook in the Swiss and Tyrolean Alps between 1606 and 1607 at the request of his patron, Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.

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