Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
Jan van den Hecke the Elder
The Banishment of Hagar and Ishmael
Lot Closed
March 24, 02:14 PM GMT
Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Jan van den Hecke the Elder
Kwaremont 1619/20 - 1684 Antwerp
The Banishment of Hagar and Ishmael
Pen and brown ink and grey wash over traces of black chalk, within black chalk framing lines;
signed and dated in pen and brown ink, lower left: J.vHecke inventor 1658 and bears numberings in black chalk, verso
185 by 200 mm
Hans van Leeuwen (1911-2010), Amsterdam/Amerongen (L.2799a),
his sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 24 November 1992, part of lot 99
Known mainly for his still lifes, landscapes and battle scenes, Jan van den Hecke the Elder was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and engraver. During his artistic career he traveled to Rome where he was commissioned by a number of important patrons including Paolo Giordano II Orsini, Duke of Bracciano. By the mid 1650s he was in Brussels where he was probably working for Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, an enthusiastic art collector who particularly favoured the still life genre.
This drawing was sold together with lot 3 (Netherlandish School, 16th Century, previously attributed to Janssens) at the Hans van Leeuwen sale in 1992 (see Provenance).