Property from the SØR Rusche Collection
Estimate:
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot sold:
1,000
GBP
JAN VAN HUCHTENBURG
Haarlem 1647 - 1733 Amsterdam
A BATTLE SCENE
Point of the brush and grey and black wash
210 by 326 mm (drawing)
385 by 489 mm (mount)
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Attached to the mount at three corners. The lower left corner has been repaired. There is some light brown foxing in the upper right section of the sheet. Wash remains strong and vibrant.
Sold unframed.
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Dr. Walter Beck, Berlin (L.2603c);
Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 18 November 2006, lot 1252.
H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 4, Historien und Allegorien, Münster/Hamburg/London 2010, pp. 190-95, cat. no. 29, reproduced.
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