Pieter Bout
Italianate landscape with herders and their flocks fording a river
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Peter Bout
(Brussels 1640/45 - 1689?)
Italianate landscape with herders and their flocks fording a river
Pen and black ink and grey wash over black chalk; a section of the sky towards the left drawn (by the artist) on a carefully inserted section of paper;
signed, lower right: P.bout
190 by 260 mm; 7½ by 10¼ in.
Heinrich Wilhelm Campe (1770-1862), Leipzig (L.1391);
Alexandre-Pierre-François Robert-Dumesnil (1778-1864), Paris (L.2200);
sale, London, Bonham's Knightsbridge, 8 July 1998, lot 34;
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Beck (1930-2010), Augsburg
Although Bout was clearly a successful artist in his own time, surprisingly little is known about his life. His earliest work is dated 1664, but he only became a master in the Brussels guild some years later, in 1671. Around 1675-1677, he seems to have worked for some time in Paris, where he collaborated with Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (1644-1719). Different sources give three very different dates for his death: 1689, 1702 and 1719. Bout worked in a number of different genres, but Italianate landscapes such as this are perhaps most typical for him. His drawings are rare.
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