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JACOB ESSELENS | WOODED RIVER LANDSCAPE

Lot Closed

May 18, 03:49 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

JACOB ESSELENS

Amsterdam 1626 - 1687

WOODED RIVER LANDSCAPE


Black chalk and grey wash, within black ink framing lines;

bears inscription in brown ink, verso, in a 17th-century hand (visible through backing sheet): van J: Esselens

197 by 310 mm


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Sale, New York, Christie's, 30 January 1998, lot 375 (as Simon Jacobsz. de Vlieger),

purchased by the late owner

The wooded landscapes of Jacob Esselens, Simon de Vlieger and Anthonie Waterloo can on occasions be very hard to separate. Although this fluid and accomplished example was sold in 1998 under the name of De Vlieger, the rather precise definition of tree trunks and branches, combined with broad yet delicate grey wash, is extremely comparable to the handling seen in one of the very few signed drawings of this type by Esselens.1  It therefore seems more logical to retain the attribution to Esselens that is inscribed, in a 17th-century hand, on the reverse of the sheet.


1. Sold, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 21 November 1989, lot 50, also as Simon de Vlieger, but subsequently recognised as being signed with initials JE