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Johannes Lingelbach
Description
- Johannes Lingelbach
- A Mediterranean port with an elegant couple, travelers and merchants resting by the quay
- signed and dated lower right: I:LINGELBACH / 1665
- oil on canvas
Provenance
With Frye & Sohn, Münster, by 2001;
With Robert Noortman, Maastricht, 2001.
From whom acquired by the present collector.
Condition
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Catalogue Note
During the 1660s, Lingelbach produced a number of port scenes, including the present work, which is dated 1665. In this painting, as with many others of the period, a cool grey tonality defines a tranquil and hazy horizon. The bustling foreground is filled with merchants, sailors, a Turk wearing a turban, and an aristocratic family at the left, while the background is shaped by a rocky precipice, various stone structures, and ships. The cylindrical tower, which appears in a number of his paintings from the period, is reminiscent of the tower of the Fortezza Vecchia, a sixteenth century fortress that still stands in Livorno today. Additionally, the fountain with the boy seated on a goose appears in Lingelbach’s 1661 painting of Livorno, now in a private collection.1
1. See L. Harwood, Inspired by Italy: Dutch landscape painting 1600-1700, London 2002, pp. 184-185, cat. no. 49, reproduced.