Lot 14
  • 14

Lodewijk Toeput, called Pozzoserrato Antwerp circa 1550 - circa 1605 Treviso

bidding is closed

Description

  • Lodewijk Toeput, called Pozzoserrato
  • river by the edge of a wood, with the sun setting to the left
  • pen and brown ink and brown and blue wash, over traces of black chalk

Provenance

Prof. Dr. Einar Perman, Stockholm;
His sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 9 June 1975, lot 27, purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

Laren, Singer Museum, Oude Tekeningen uit de Nederlanden, verzameling Prof. E. Perman, Stockholm, 1962, cat. no. 115.

Catalogue Note

In both composition and handling, this very characteristic drawing by Pozzoserrato can be compared with others in the Frick Collection and the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (see L. Menegazzi, "Grafica del Pozzoserrato," in Toeput a Treviso, (Atti del Seminario, Treviso 1987), Asolo 1988, p. 68, figs. 9-10).