Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection

Jan Wildens

A hilly wooded landscape with a road by a pond

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March 24, 02:23 PM GMT

Estimate

800 - 1,200 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Jan Wildens

Antwerp 1584 - 1653

A hilly wooded landscape with a road by a pond

Pen and brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk

unframed: 276 by 425 mm

framed: 377 by 308 mm

Dr. J. Schouten, Delft;
with C. Deirkauf, Utrecht, 1963;
Hans van Leeuwen (1911-2010), Amsterdam/Amerongen (L.2799a),
his sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 24 November 1992, lot 236 (as Jan Wildens)

W. Adler, Jan Wildens, der Landschaftsmitarbeiter des Rubens, Fridingen, 1980, pl. 51, no. 37, reproduced, pl. 39

Leeuwaarden, Museum Princessehof, Tentoonstelling Oude Tekeningen uit Drie Eeuwen, Collectie Hans van Leeuwen, 1966, no. 3;
Rheydt, Städtisches Museum Schloss Rheydt, Niederländische Zeichnungen des 17. - 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Hans van Leeuwen, 1971, no. 86;
Fribourg, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Passau, Oberhaumuseum, Trier, Städtisches Museum, Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, and Nuremberg, Dürerhaus, Niederländische Meisterzeichnungen des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Hans van Leeuwen, 1982-84, no. 118

Jan Wildens specialised in landscape painting. From 1613 until 1618 he worked in Rome, and briefly Genoa; in Rome he came strongly under the influence of the great landscape innovator Paul Bril. Following his return to his native Antwerp, Wildens collaborated with a number of artists, including Sir Peter Paul Rubens, providing the landscape backgrounds for their figural compositions.

At the time of the 1992 sale, Dr Wolfgang Adler compared this drawing with another in the British Museum, and suggested a dating of circa 1640.¹

^1. Adler, op. cit., no. Z24, pl. 195 / https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Gg-2-226