Johannes Glauber

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Description

Johannes Glauber
italianate landscape with two figures resting by a ruined statue
Pen and two shades of brown ink, within brown ink framing lines, incised for transfer;
bears old numbering in brown ink, lower right: 79 /4

Provenance

Private Collection, New York

Condition

Unframed. A loss to the lower left corner, and a very slight loss to the lower right. Was previously laid down (in an album?) - there are the remains of two backing sheets on the verso. One of the tones of ink is slightly sunk, and there are three small water-type spot stains in the upper right. Otherwise, the condition is fine and the drawing still makes a good impression.
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Catalogue Note

Johannes Glauber, part of the third generation of Dutch Italianates in Rome, was a member of the "Schildersbent" (Painter's Club) where he was nicknamed 'Polidoro' in recognition of his debt to the landscapes of Polidoro da Caravaggio. His other major influence was Gaspard Dughet. This impressive sheet is a beautiful example of Glauber's large-scale pen and ink landscape drawings; one of the few known preparatory studies for a series of forty etchings, mostly executed by Adolf van der Laan after Glauber's designs. Although incised for transfer, the drawing has not as yet been connected with any of the series.

Comparable drawings are in the Albertina, the Louvre, and elsewhere. Another drawing from the series was sold in Amsterdam, Sotheby's, November 6, 2001, lot 93. For further information, see An Zwollo, Hollandse en Vlaamse veduteschilders te Rome 1675-1725, Assen 1975, pp. 14, 16, figs. 12, 16.