Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
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January 29, 05:09 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
ISAAC MAJOR
Frankfurt 1588 - 1642 Vienna
A RUGGED MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES BY A WATERFALL
Point of the brush and blue wash, within partial black chalk framing lines;
bears numbering upper right in pen and brown ink: 75
235 by 361 mm; 9¼ by 14¼ in
Henry and June Weldon, New York
This drawing is by the same hand as a coherent group of landscapes drawn with the brush in blue ink and wash, examples of which are at Yale, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, Paris, Berlin and Copenhagen. These drawings were historically attributed to a number of artists, most frequently Jacob Savery, but Joaneath Spicer convincingly attributed the group to Isaac Major, comparing them with Major's graphic work and noting their reliance on Roelandt Savery. In publishing the Yale drawings, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann summarised Spicer's arguments, and endorsed her attribution to Major.1
1. T. DaCosta Kaufmann, Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire 1540-1680, A selection from North American Collections, exhib. cat., Princeton/Washington/Pittsburgh 1982-3, pp. 178-179