Collector, Dealer, Connoisseur: The Vision of Richard L. Feigen

Moses Matheusz. van Uyttenbroeck

Young man and woman in a cave

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October 18, 03:29 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Moses Matheusz. van Uyttenbroeck

The Hague circa 1600 - after 1646

Young man and woman in a cave

signed with monogram lower right: MB

oil on panel

panel: 7 1/2 by 6 3/8 in.; 19 by 16.2 cm.

framed: 12 1/2 by 11 1/4 in.; 31.8 by 28.6 cm.

N.V. Landbouwonderneming Oedtsma, Huizum, by 1927;
Coenraad W.A. Buma, Marssum/Paris, by 1936;
Private collection, Holland;
With Colnaghi, New York;
From whom acquired by Richard L. Feigen, 1983.

Catalogus der schilderijen, Utrecht 1952, p. 391, cat. no. 1151 (as Monogrammist M.B.);
U. Weisner, "Die Gemälde des Moyses van Uyttenbroack," in Oud Holland, LXXIX, 1964, p. 224, cat. no. 47, reproduced fig. 30.

Utrecht, Centraal Museum, 1927, on loan (as Cornelis van Poelenburgh and later as Monogrammist M.B.).

Moses van Uyttenbroeck became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in the Hague in 1620, and only about 70 works by the artist survive. Though he probably did not travel to Italy, he drew inspiration from the Italianate landscapes by his Dutch contemporaries, as seen in the ruins included here. In his middle and later years of activity, he painted genre scenes that refer to mythological and pastoral themes in a general way and place less emphasis on landscape.

When the present lot was exhibited in Utrecht it was attributed to an anonymous "Monogrammist MB." Though Uyttenbroeck only monogrammed a handful of works, he seems to have varied his signature each time, making it difficult to identify. At least one other work given to him is monogrammed similarly: Moses found by the Pharoah's Daughter, monogrammed MB f. and now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.¹

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