Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
Property from the Collection of David and Louise Carter
Adam Pijnacker
Landscape with Fishermen and Goats
Auction Closed
January 27, 05:29 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of David and Louise Carter
Adam Pijnacker
Schiedam 1620 - 1673 Amsterdam
Landscape with Fishermen and Goats
Black chalk and gray wash, within brown ink framing lines;
signed with the artist's monogram, lower right: AP
409 by 306 mm; 16 1/8 by 12 in
Despite the appearance of two works by Pijnacker in this sale alone (see also lot 36), the emergence of a drawing by the artist on the open market is a rare event indeed. The present work, signed by the artist with his distinctive monogram, can be compared on stylistic grounds to a sheet in the Teyler Museum, Haarlem, depicting a Mountain Landscape with Figures on a Wooden Bridge.1As noted by Michiel Plomp in his accompanying catalogue entry for the Teyler's drawing, sheets "of similar technique and size are in Leiden and Amsterdam (Rijksprentenkabinet). Both are dated 1663, the first signed in full, the other with Pynacker's monogram".2 Plomp suggests that the Teylers drawing should therefore date from around the same moment, in the early 1660s, a dating that on stylistic grounds should also be applied to the present work.
1. M. Plomp, The Dutch Drawings in the Teyler Museum, vol. II, Artists Born Between 1575 and 1630, Haarlem 1997, p. 283, no. 313, reproduced
2. Ibid.