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Michiel van Overbeck active circa 1650 - 1680
Description
- Michiel van Overbeck
- view of a waterfall in a mountainous landscape, with a farmer herding goats and a cow across a bridge
inscribed in brown ink, upper centre: Piere Pretsieuse Envers Grenoble, and numbered, upper right: No 14
- pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, on paper washed reddish-brown
Provenance
Purchased from Alister Mathews, 1956
Catalogue Note
A substantial group of topographical drawings depicting English, French, Italian and Dutch views, all in the same distinctive media and many bearing identifying inscriptions of the type seen here, have been tentatively linked with the name Michiel van Overbeck, on the basis of the initials, MVO, with which a number of the drawings are signed on the reverse.
This scene may be compared to two other views of waterfalls near Grenoble by Overbeck which were sold, London, Sotheby's, 18 November 1985, lots 40 and 41. These were engraved in reverse by Johannes Glauber, as part of a series of six plates (see F. Anzelewski (ed.), Hollstein's German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, vol. X, Amsterdam 1975, pp. 66-72, Glauber nos. 4-9). The present drawing is not directly related to any of the prints in this set, but its composition and format are very similar.