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Herman Saftleven

A mountainous landscape with resting figures near a village

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Lot Closed

March 24, 02:42 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Herman Saftleven

Rotterdam 1609 - 1685 Utrecht

A mountainous landscape with resting figures near a village


Black chalk and brown wash within brown ink framing lines;

signed with monogram in black chalk, lower left: HSL and bears attribution in black chalk, verso: H. Saftleven and numbering: 245

241 by 478 mm

Sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 11 November 1996, lot 89 (Sold in aid of the Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam)

A stylistically similar panoramic landscape, depicting Wageningseberg in Utrecht, is in the Albertina, Vienna.1   For another landscape by Saftleven, see the previous lot (41).


1. W. Schulz, Herman Saftleven 1609-1685, Berlin/New York 1982, cat no. 647, reproduced fig. 81 (Albertina inv. no, 9050)