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Mountain Landscape with a Waterfall
Also titled Berglandschap met waterval
Roelant Savery (Kortrijk, 1576–1639)
1603 - 1613
- Medium
- paper, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 383 mm x width 413 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
In his biography of Roelant Savery, Joachim von Sandrart recounts that Emperor Rudolf II commissioned the artist to go to the Tyrol to record its ‘remarkable wonders of nature’. For this large mountain landscape, as in the case of other drawings, Savery relied on sketches that he made while traveling around the Tyrol. His work teems with inhospitable forests, sheer cliffs and thundering waterfalls.
