* Jan de Bisschop Amsterdam 1628 - 1671 The Hague

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Description

Jan de Bisschop
hilly landscape with a fortified town in the foreground
drawn with the brush in brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk

Provenance

Dr. Walter Beck, Berlin (L.2603b)

Exhibited

Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Fine Arts, Old Master Drawings from a Private Collection, June 17 - September 7, 1986

Catalogue Note

Though perhaps loosely inspired by the drawn views of Italian scenes by Breenbergh and others, this composition would appear to be the product of de Bisschop's imagination.