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Isaac de Moucheron Amsterdam 1667 - 1744
Description
- Isaac de Moucheron
- view of the ripa grande, rome
- signed with initials and inscribed in black ink, lower left: I.M. A ripa grande in Rom, and signed and inscribed in black ink, verso: I Moucheron fecit a Ripa grande in Roma
- black chalk and grey wash, within dark brown ink framing lines
Provenance
Catalogue Note
This important mooring site on the River Tiber was also recorded in Pieter Bruegel the Elder's famous drawing, now at Chatsworth (inv. no. 841; see H. Mielke, Pieter Bruegel, die Zeichnungen, Brepols 1996, cat. no. 14). The buildings represented include the church and bell-tower of Santa Maria in Turri, with to the right the Dogana Vecchia, the marine customs house that was demolished in 1790 to make way for the Ospizio di San Michele (see also lot 150).
Moucheron spent the years 1694-7 in Rome, where he produced a number of similarly inscribed, large, topographical drawings executed either in pure pen and ink or in this combination of chalk and black ink wash; some of these were used later in his career as the basis for more elaborate, decorative watercolours. These early drawings by Moucheron rarely appear on the market, but one other, a view of St. Peter's, formerly in the Bijl Collection, was sold, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 17 November 1993. For further information on Moucheron's Roman period, see An Zwollo, Hollandse en Vlaamse veduteschilders te Rome 1675-1725, Assen 1973, pp. 39-56.