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Dessins et peintures anciens – Oude tekeningen & schilderijen

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24 [Dutch school]

Circle of MOEYAERT, Nicolaes Cornelisz. - Esau meeting

Jacob. [Amsterdam], c. 1607-1655.

Drawing, black chalk, pencil, grey wash, framelines in pen and brown ink, 20,2 x

24,9 cm, laid down on thicker sheet of paper, unsigned (some old repairs at lower

left corner, minor abrasions to the right lower corner, some brown foxing spots to

the sheet throughout, sm. ink stain at left lower centre under Esau’s chest). Upper

edges under passe-partout.

300 / 400 €

Ishmael» in the National Gallery of Edinburgh (inv. inv./cat.nr RSA 1125) or

«King Jeroboam points to the prophet» in the Kunstsammlung der Universität

Göttingen (inv. H7).

Ref. RKD https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/56541. - A. Tümpel, «Claes Cornelisz.

Moeyaert», Oud Holland 88 (1974), p. 1-163.

25 [Dutch school]

MONINCKX, Johannes I - Landscape with figures with church

and classical ruins. C. 1620-1630.

Drawing, pen and brown ink, framing line in brown ink, 14,5 x 24,3 cm, laid

paper, signed at lower edge «JMoninx Fecit» (min. crease at lower right corner,

trimmed to framing line). Under passe-partout, under wooden gilt frame (not

studied outside frame).

1.000 / 1.200 €

Highly detailed drawing with two travellers on the right foreground approaching

a ruined church building attached to a classical colonnade. In the background

a circular temple can be seen. The architecture forms a fantasy assembly

or capriccio of Roman buildings such as churches, ruins and amphitheatres.

The manner of hatching, the high sense of detail and the subject matter all

correspond to Moninckx’ oeuvre from which only a handful signed drawings

have survived. This drawing is strongly comparable both in style and subject

with a sheet in the Indianapolis Museum of Art (inv. 1988.41). Accompanied by

a certificate.

An expertly executed sheet depicting the meeting between Esau and Jacob,

surrounded by a large crowd. The horizontal hatchings, general compositions,

the subtle use of wash and the ideosyncratic faces are all traits which recall

the style of Nicolaes Moeyaert (1592-1655), a student of Pieter Lastman.

Stylistically comparable drawings are «The banishment of Hagar and

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