Property from the Estate of Myron Kaplan
François Ryckhals
Landscape with Cattle and Two Figures
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Myron Kaplan
François Ryckhals
(Middelburg 1600 - 1647)
Landscape with Cattle and Two Figures
Black chalk, made up across the upper edge;
bears old attribution, verso: P. Potter
85 by 200 mm; 3⅛ by 7⅞ in.
From the "Second Collection" of Franz Koenigs, Haarlem and Berlin, (1881-1941),
thence by inheritance, until sold by his heirs,
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 23 January 2001, lot 38,
where acquired by Myron Kaplan
While Ryckhals is relatively little-known today, in the years around 1630 he was an influential landscape draftsman. His style, itself much affected by the work of Willem Buytewech (1591-1624), was admired and emulated by the young Herman Saftleven (1609-1685) and also by Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691), alongside whom he worked in Dordrecht in 1633-4. A very similarly executed drawing of a group of shepherds on a hillock is in the Uffizi, Florence.1
The late Dr. Hans-Ulrich Beck previously confirmed the attribution of the present work to Ryckhals at the time of the 2001 sale (see Provenance).
1.See H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, IV, Künstler um Jan van Goyen, Doornspijk 1991, p. 366, cat. 1041 A5, reproduced
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