Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher
Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher
View of the beach at Egmond-aan-Zee
Lot Closed
December 9, 02:35 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten
Amsterdam 1622 - 1666
View of the beach at Egmond-aan-Zee
oil on oak panel
unframed: 89.6 x 134.8 cm.; 35¼ x 53⅛ in.
framed: 112.1 x 156.9 cm.; 44⅛ x 61¾ in.
Beerstraten depicted the beach at Egmond-aan-Zee on several occasions, usually from the other side of the Sint Agnes church, for example in the work today in the Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig.1 The tower of Sint Agnes was the only part of the church to remain standing in the town after Egmond-aan-Zee was sacked and burned by pirates in 1571. It was later demolished following a storm in 1741, and today this entire view lies underwater, more than 200 metres off the Dutch shoreline.
Egmond-aan-Zee was a very popular subject for a great many Dutch landscapists active in the middle of the seventeenth century, including Jan van Goyen and Salomon van Ruysdael (see lot 12, Evening Sale, 8 December 2021). Jacob van Ruisdael’s late masterpiece The Shore at Egmond-aan-Zee (National Gallery, London) is painted from almost exactly the same vantage point as the present work.2
1 Inv. no. 506; https://rkd.nl/explore/images/12638
2 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jacob-van-ruisdael-the-shore-at-egmond-aan-zee