Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II
Master Paintings and Sculpture Part II
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Marten Rijckaert
A river landscape with a fort
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January 27, 09:38 PM GMT
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40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Marten Rijckaert
Antwerp 1587 - 1631
A river landscape with a fort
oil on copper
copper: 7¾ by 11¼ in.; 19 by 28.5 cm.
framed: 10⅞ by 14⅜ in.; 27.5 by 36.5 cm.
With Alfred Brod, London, 1961 (as Paul Bril);
With Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam, 1962 (as Paul Bril);
Dr Hans Wetzlar (d. 1977), Amsterdam, by 1963;
His posthumous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby’s, 9 June 1977, lot 12 (as Paul Bril);
Where acquired for the Schuybroek collection, Belgium;
By whom sold ("Property from the Schuybroek Collection"), London, Sotheby's, 7 July 2021, lot 127 (as Paul Bril);
Where acquired.
This painting previously bore the image of a pair of spectacles (bril in Dutch) on the sign on the inn, center left, which informed the work's former attribution to Paul Bril. The composition repeats a design by Bril (with differences in the figures), in a painting on canvas in the collection of the Fondazione Banca di Roma, which Francesca Cappelletti dates to the second decade of the 17th century.1 Following the removal of the signature and based on stylistic comparison, the work has recently been reattributed to Marten Rijckaert, who painted a number of copies after Bril (as well as other artists including Gillis van Coninxloo, Tobias Verhaecht, and Lucas van Valckenborch).
We are grateful to Drs Luuk Pijl for endorsing the present attribution on the basis digital images.
1 F. Cappelletti, Paul Bril e la pittura di paesaggio a Roma 1580-1630, Rome 2005, p. 278, cat. no. 111, reproduced (no measurements are given).