Old Master Drawings

Old Master Drawings

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Property from the Collection of Matthew Rutenberg

Paulus van Hillegaert I

A Landscape with Houses on the Bank of a River

Auction Closed

January 27, 05:29 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Matthew Rutenberg

Paulus van Hillegaert I

Amsterdam 1595/6 - 1640

A Landscape with Houses on the Bank of a River


Pen and brown ink and brown and reddish wash, over traces of black chalk

223 by 339 mm; 8 ⅝ by 13 ¼ in

Baron Carl Rolas du Rosey (d.1862), Dresden (L.2237);
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York (as Jan Brueghel)

An accomplished and atmospheric view of the Dutch countryside, this drawing is by the same distinctive hand as two that were formerly on the art market1, and two more in Berlin, which Wolfgang Schulz and K.G. Boon attributed to Hillegaert2 - an artist otherwise best known for his painted battle scenes.  


1. Sales, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 9 June 1975, lot 40, and Amsterdam, Sothebys, 4 November 2003, lot 30

2. Berlin, SMPK, Kupferstichkabinett, inv. 2775 & 2776; one reproduced W. Schulz, Die holländische Landschaftszeichnung, exh. cat., Berlin 1974, fig. 24