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Fantastic Landscape
Fantastic Landscape

Fantastic Landscape

Datecirca 1643–1645
MediumOil on cradled panel
Dimensions34 7/8 x 51 1/2 in. (88.6 x 130.8 cm)
Frame: 41 5/8 x 56 3/4 in. (105.7 x 144.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Morton D. May
Object numberGL.59.3.1
On View
On view
ProvenanceCreated Netherlands, ca. 1643–1645. Cardinal Joseph Fesch (1763–1839), Paris and Rome. Possibly Collection Stepanof, Paris [1]. [Possibly E. & A. Silberman Gallery, New York]. Morton J. May (1881–1968), Saint Louis; his son Morton D. May (1914–1983), Saint Louis; given to NCMA, 1959.

[1] Owner cited by Sumowski 1983, Vol. 4, p. 2887, but not verified.
Published ReferencesRoberto Longhi, "'Monsu X' (Un Olandese in 'Barocco')," Paragone 5 no. 53 (Maggio 1954), 39-46 [painting not mentioned].

Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 69 (as by Rembrandt), illus. (b-w) 125.

Fritz W. Nurgess, "Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, Gedächtnis-Ausstellung in Raleigh, NC," Die Weltkunst (June 1959), 17, illus.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, no. 1 (Fall 1963), listed 14 (as by Rembrandt), illus. (b-w) 15.

Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Vol. 4, Edition PVA, text by Ch. Paudiss-Anonyme (Landau/Pfaltz: Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, 1983), 2879, 2880, 2887, illus. (color) 2924, as Jacob de Villeers' Gebirglandschaft mit Ruine. [Related illus. 2922, 2931, 2925-31].

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 101 (as Follower of Rembrandt).

Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), mentioned 12-13.

Cynthia P. Schneider, Rembrandt's Landscapes (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990), 156-59, illus. 157.

Important Old Master Paintings (auction catalogue), Southeby's (New York, Jan 11 1996), sale 6798, lot 18 (under "Mountainous Landscape With Figures").

Gregor J. M. Weber, "Stormy Landscapes," in Rembrandt's Landscapes" (exhibition catalogue) Christiaan Vogelaar and Gregor J. M. Weber, eds. (Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 2006), 53, illus. (b-w) 51 (attributed to Jacob de Villeers).

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 27, illus. (color) 117, also mentioned xi.

Norton Simon Museum Label (New York: Newhouse Gallery), no. 61677.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 17, 1959, cat. no. 69 (as by Rembrandt), illus. (b-w).

St. Louis, MO, St. Louis University, "Pope Pius XII Library" (exhibition of May collection), January, 1960.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987, mentioned 12-13.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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