Lot 18
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Denijs van Alsloot Brussels before 1573 - 1625/1626

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Description

  • Denijs van Alsloot
  • heavily wooded landscape with a distant castle by a stream
  • bears attribution in brown ink, lower right: Brueguel
    pen and brown ink and brown and blue wash

Provenance

Albert Welcker (L.2793c, with his inventory number in black ink: Inv.No1179, all deleted in crayon); 
With Adolphe Stein, Paris, catalogue 1983, no. 22, reproduced plate 16 (as Gillis van Coninxloo)

Catalogue Note

Drawings by Alsloot are relatively rare, which perhaps explains why they have often gone under other names.  His draughtsmanship is, however, very distinctive, and this characteristic drawing is very comparable to a number of signed examples, most of them the same size as this, including one in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (see Renaissance et Maniérisme dans les Ecoles du Nord..., exhibition catalogue, Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1985-6, cat. no. 121), two in Munich (see W. Wegner, Kataloge der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung München. Die Niederländischen Handzeichnungen 15.-18. Jahrhunderts, Berlin 1973, cat. nos. 202, 203), a further five at Schloss Wolfegg, and one sold, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 18 November 1980, lot 20.