Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
SIMON JACOBSZ. DE VLIEGER | WOODED RIVER BANK, WITH A CHURCH IN THE DISTANCE
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July 29, 01:56 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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SIMON JACOBSZ. DE VLIEGER
Rotterdam circa 1600/1 - 1653 Weesp
WOODED RIVER BANK, WITH A CHURCH IN THE DISTANCE
Black and white chalk and grey wash on blue paper
254 by 394 mm
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Possibly William Esdaile (1758-1837), London (according to the 1962 Perman exhibition catalogue);
Prof. Dr. Einar Perman, Stockholm
The 1962 Laren exhibition catalogue notes that the attribution to De Vlieger was proposed by Lyckle Frerichs. Landscapes executed in the appealing combination of media seen here form a significant part of the drawn oeuvres of both Waterloo and De Vlieger, although according to C.P. van Eeghen, the latter only began to use this characteristic blue paper regularly towards the end of his career, starting in the late 1640s.1
Only rarely did De Vlieger incorporate such an extensive river view within one of his woodland scenes on blue paper, but the occasions when he did so produced some of his most atmospheric and accomplished drawings.
1. C.P. van Eeghen, 'Simon de Vlieger as a Draughtsman, I: The Pen Drawings,' Master Drawings, vol. XLIV, no. 1 (Spring 2006), p. 5