Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
A mountainous landscape with resting figures near a village
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
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)