View of the Rhine near Rheineck Castle
Herman Saftleven
1654
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
45.3; 30.4
About this artwork
From the artist, fl. 150, to Baron Willem Vincent van Wyttenhorst (1613-1674), Gansoijen Castle, near Den Bosch, June 1654;{The date is stated in the inventory of his paintings (see hereafter), where a note in the margin is included: ‘is gecogt in Junnio 1654 op Gansoijen’.} inventory of his paintings, 1651-59, fol. 17, no. Cxxxiiij (‘een seer curieus lantscap en boere kermis met eenige sceepies van Herman Saftleeven waer in hij een vleck op de rijn genaempt […] heeft afgemaelt met seer aerdige ...