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Lot 69
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Herman Saftleven II Rotterdam 1609 - 1685 Utrecht

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Description

  • Herman Saftleven
  • an extensive rhenish river landscape with figures unloading barges and sailboats in the foreground

  • signed with monogram and dated lower left: HS 1664 and signed, dated and inscribed on the reverse: Duits gesight/ herman saftleven./Utrecht/Anno 1664

  • oil on oak panel

Catalogue Note

This picture appears to be unrecorded.  The inscription on the reverse is autograph, and similar inscriptions are often found on the reverse of Saftleven's paintings at this date.  Duits gesight means "German view"; this is one of many such Rhenish and Mosan capricci painted by Saftleven that were inspired by his journey up the Rhine in the early 1650s.