Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection
Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection
Jacob van der Ulft
Capriccio of a Classical Harbour
Lot Closed
December 4, 02:52 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Jacob van der Ulft
Gorinchem 1627 - 1689 Noordwijk
Capriccio of a Classical Harbour
Pen and brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk; circular
diameter: 119 mm
framed: 340 by 510 mm
Michael Ingram (bears his collector's mark, not in Lugt),
by whose executors sold, London, Sotheby's, The Ingram Collection: Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of the Late Michael Ingram, 8 December 2005, lot 1
by whose executors sold, London, Sotheby's, The Ingram Collection: Drawings and Watercolours from the Collection of the Late Michael Ingram, 8 December 2005, lot 1
Two comparable roundels by van der Ulft of classical harbour scenes are in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem (inv. nos. Q. 80 and Q. 82). As with this example, many of Van der Ulft's landscapes are Italianate, whether real views or capricci. Interestingly, it seems that the artist never in fact visited Italy, but based many of his drawings on those of Jan de Bisschop, the contents of whose studio Van der Ulft had access to after De Bisschop's death in 1671. Nevertheless the atmospheric nature of this drawings is highly resonant of classical Italy. See also lot 50.