Lot 259
  • 259

Adam van Noort

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Adam van Noort
  • A scene of exodus with women and children resting in the foreground, others walking in procession in the distance
  • Pen and grey ink and wash, heightened with white, on blue paper

Provenance

Sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 11 November 1997, lot 16

Condition

Laid down. Overall condition is good. Some light brown staining in the upper section of the sheet, barely visible. Medium is strong and vibrant.
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Catalogue Note

Though he was the teacher of both Rubens and Jordaens, van Noort's own works have received little attention, and few drawings have been securely attributed to him.  The most similar in execution to this is a drawing of an outdoor merry company, in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne.1  For a general discussion of van Noort's drawings, and examples of signed sheets, see Christian Dittrich, 'Drawings by Adam van Noort', Master Drawings, vol. X, no. 2 (1972), pp. 137-143, pls. 22-25.

1. See H. Mielke, 'Einige Zeichnungen Adam van Noorts' in Essays in Northern European Art presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on his Sixtieth Birthday, Doornspijk 1983, p. 177, reproduced fig. 7