Master Paintings Part II

Master Paintings Part II

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Property from the Collection of David and Louise Carter

Willem de Heusch

An Italianate landscape with travelers and mules by a waterfall

Lot Closed

January 30, 03:42 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of David and Louise Carter

Willem de Heusch

Utrecht 1625 - 1692

An Italianate landscape with travelers and mules by a waterfall


remnants of a signature lower left

oil on canvas

canvas: 25 3/4 by 31 3/4 in.; 65 by 80.7 cm. 

framed:  34 1/4 by 40 5/8 in.; 87 by 103.2 cm.  

With Schaeffer Galleries, New York (as Nicholas Pietersz. Berchem);
From whom acquired, 1950s.

Willem de Heusch was a Dutch Golden Age artist who specialized in Italianate landscapes in the style of Jan Both, with whom he is likely to have trained. De Heusch is thought to have travelled in Italy around 1640 but was back in Utrecht by 1649 where he is recorded as a dean of the Guild along with Jan Both and Cornelis Poelenburgh.


The present lot closely follows a painting by Jan Both that last appeared on the market in 1992.1 Like that example by Jan Both, the present composition is bathed in a similar golden light; lush foliage, boulders, and a gentle stream of water line a pathway that winds towards a rolling landscape beyond. Another example of this same composition that is of slightly larger dimensions and attributed to Jan Both is recorded in the Marburg Photo Archive in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin.2


1. Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 8 July 1992, lot 33. 

2. Inv. no. 1969, oil on canvas, 92 by 99 cm. Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, no. gg1189.