Jan de Bisschop Amsterdam 1628 - 1671 The Hague

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Description

Jan de Bisschop
Landscape with a castle and farm
pen and brown ink with brown wash on paper, unframed
4 3/4 by 8 1/8 in.
12.1 by 20.5 cm.

Provenance

Sale: Christie's, London, March 26, 1974, lot 131
Colnaghi's, London, 1977
Curtis O. Baer Collection

Exhibited

Atlanta, High Museum of Art, et al., Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso: The Curtis O. Baer Collection, exh. cat., 1985, no. 43

Literature

Netherlands Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London, 1974, no. 19

Catalogue Note

The present drawing, depicting the Roman Campagna, was most likely executed during one of several trips to Rome in the 1650s. It belongs to a series of works by the artist which were copied in 1675 by Jacob van der Ulft into a sketchbook, now in the Institut Néerlandais, Paris.