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| Title | Mountain Landscape with Waterfall | |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum | |
| Artist | Vollerdt, Johann Christian (German painter, 1708-1769) | |
| Date Earliest | probably about 1730 | |
| Date Latest | 1769 | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | Like its pendant, the Landscape with Buildings and Figures beside a Lake, this Mountain Landscape with a Waterfall is quite a conventional eighteenth-century mountainous landscape painting from the northern schools. A river with a smooth waterfall, a solid tree, a tower and a high rocky mountain in the background are the principal means of composition. | |
| Current Accession Number | 341 | |
| Inscription | front ll 'Vollerdt. p.' | |
| Subject | landscape | |
| Measurements | 17.8 x 23.5 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on panel | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by William Euing 1856. | |
| Publications | Dutch and Flemish Netherlandish and German Paintings, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums, 1961, vol. 1, text, p. 147, vol. 2, illustrations, p. 116. | |
| Notes | An illegible inscription in ink on the back, fragment of a label '899_', label on frame 'Reg. No 22. Landscape with figures Jan Vollaerdt'. A pendant to Landscape with Buildings and Figures beside a Lake, no. 340, in the same collection. |
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| Rights Owner | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) | |
| Author | Dr Heiner Krellig | |