Mountainous Landscape with an Entrance to a Mine

ca. between 1612 and 1613

Roelandt Savery Dutch, 1578-1639

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Title Mountainous Landscape with an Entrance to a Mine

Artwork Date ca. between 1612 and 1613

Artist Roelandt Savery

Life Dates 1578-1639

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on beech panel

Dimensions Framed: 11 1/4 × 14 7/8 × 2 1/8 inches (28.6 × 37.8 × 5.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2001.37

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Signed Signed, lower center: SAVERY

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Provenance

June 26, 1957, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) lot 119 [as Gillis d'Hondecoeter] [for 550 pounds sterling]

1957, purchased by R. Herzig

1957-1960, (Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, Austria)

1960, (Galerie P. de Boer, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

April 6, 1977, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) lot 7 [as lacking evidence of a signature]

1983-1991, British Rail Pension Fund, on loan to Firle Place (Sussex, England)

June 3, 1996, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) auction British Rail Pension Fund, lot 62 [as with traces of a signature] [for 56,500 pounds sterling]

private collection (Netherlands)

2001, (David Koetser Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland)

2001-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Ausstellung. Exh. cat., Galerie Sanct Lucas. Vienna, 1959 (ill.). [as Roelant Savery.]

Exhibition of Old Master Pictures. Exh. cat., Galerie P. de Boer. Amsterdam, 1960, cat. 14 (ill.). [as Roelandt Savery.]

Kaufmann, T. Da Costa, L'Ecole de Prague. Paris, 1985, pp. 286-287, cat. 19.68 (ill.). [as datable to the artist's last years in Prague.]

Roelant Savery in seiner Zeit (1576-1639). Exh. cat., Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Centraal Museum. Cologne and Utrecht, 1985, pp. 87-88, cited under cat. 87.

Kaufmann, T. Da Costa. The School of Prague, Paintings at the Court of Rudolf II. Chicago and London, 1988, p. 247, cat. 19.66 (ill.). [citing erroneous auction reference.]

Müllenmeister, K.J., Roelant Savery, Kortrijk 1576-1639. Utrecht, Hofmaler Kaiser Rudolf II. in Prag, Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog. Freren, 1988, p. 220, no. 58 (ill.). [as ca. 1608.]

Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts, London, 2004, pp. 220-221.

Keyes, G.S. "A Brief History of the European Paintings Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts with a Focus on the Dutch School." in the catalogue for The European Fine Art Fair(TEFAF). Maastricht, 2005, pp. 10-15.

Solana, Guillermo. Lo Oculto en las Colecciones Thyssen-Bornemisza. Exh. cat., Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisa. Madrid, 2023, p. 14 (fig. 1).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Roelandt Savery, Mountainous Landscape with an Entrance to a Mine, ca. between 1612 and 1613, oil on beech panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, 2001.37.