Old Master & British Works on Paper including works from the Collections of Carlos Alberto Cruz and the late Timothy Clowes

Old Master & British Works on Paper including works from the Collections of Carlos Alberto Cruz and the late Timothy Clowes

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 58. Resting travellers before a town in a valley.

Property from the Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection

Christian Georg Schütz the Younger

Resting travellers before a town in a valley

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September 23, 02:33 PM GMT

Estimate

600 - 800 GBP

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Property from the Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection

Christian Georg Schütz the Younger

1758 - 1823

Resting travellers before a town in a valley


Pen and black ink and grey ink and grey wash;

signed lower centre: c g. SCHÜTZ and bears numberings verso 9577 in red chalk and 3535 in black chalk and inscription GJ Schütz. bz.

unframed: 253 by 333 mm

framed: 440 by 530 mm

Heinrich Stiebel (1851-1910), Frankfurt (L.1367);
sale, London, Sotheby's, Quality in Detail: The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection, 24 March 2021, lot 142
In many of Schütz's accomplished, carefully composed mountain and Rhineland landscapes, we see very clearly the influence of his illustrious Dutch predecessor Herman Saftleven (see lots 41 and 42), but this drawing is one of those in which Schütz's own artistic personality is more clearly apparent.