Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
Anthonie van Croos
An artist sketching the ruins of Egmont Castle
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March 24, 02:55 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Anthonie van Croos
Alkmaar 1606 - 1663 The Hague
An artist sketching the ruins of Egmont Castle
signed and dated lower left: AV.CROOS.F16.54
oil on oak panel
unframed: 20.1 x 23.3 cm.; 7 7/8 x 9 1/8 in.
framed: 37 x 40 cm.; 14 5/8 x 15 3/4 in.
With Galerie Friederike Pallamar, Vienna, by 1977;
With Alan Jacobs Gallery, London, by 1986 (exhibited at Pictura, Maastricht, 1987);
With Galerie Lingenauber, Düsseldorf, by 1990 (when exhibited at Pictura, Maastricht), where acquired for the Wieg collection.
The picturesque ruins of Egmont Castle, a medieval castle in North Holland, fascinated many of the most important Dutch landscapists of the 17th century and beyond. Anthonie van Croos depicted the castle from a variety of angles, returning to the subject at different moments during his career: the present work is dated 1654, while a comparable composition sold at Sotheby’s, London, 17 December 1998, lot 306, dates to 1650.1 He frequently included the figure of an artist sketching in the foreground of his compositions, as in the present work.