Herman Saftleven

Rhineland landscape with an inn

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January 31, 05:59 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Herman Saftleven

Rotterdam 1609 - 1685 Utrecht

Rhineland landscape with an inn

Black chalk and gray wash and watercolor;

signed with monogram, lower left: HSL and inscribed in black chalk, verso: Bij Gob (?)

192 by 317 mm; 7 ½ by 12 ½ in.

William Mayor (d. 1874), London (L.2799);
Dr. Einar Perman (1893-1976), Stockholm,
by descent to the present owners

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Nationalmuseum and other Swedish Collections, 1953, cat. 177;
Laren, Singer Museum, Oude Tekeningen uit de Nederlanden. Verzameling Prof. E. Perman, Stockholm, 1962, cat. 97

W. Schulz, Herman Saftleven 1609-1685, Berlin/New York 1982, p. 455, cat. 1298

Although the river is rather less in evidence here than in the previous lot, this drawing also clearly depicts a location that Saftleven would have encountered during the course of his journey along the Rhine, in the early 1650s. A view on the Rhine near the Drachenfels, signed and dated 1654, and very similar in scale and technique to the present drawing, is in the Rijksmuseum.¹ Both these drawings were formerly together in the collection of William Mayor (see Provenance). Although Saftleven inscribed the name of the spot he has depicted here on the reverse of the sheet, it has not so far been possible to connect this name ('Gob' or 'Goss') with an identifiable location.

1. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. RP-T-1885-A-463