GRABADOS ARENBERG 19.10.2019

45 [Flemish school]
Abraham and Isaac in a landscape. [Antwerp], 17th c.
Oil on copper, 11,6 x 24,2 cm, unsigned (minor craquelure pattern across the
surface and ingrained dirt). Under 19th-c. frame. (not studied outside frame).
400 / 500 €
Dessins et peintures anciens – Oude tekeningen & schilderijen
Abraham, wearing a turban, is walking on a hillside with his son. Both the knife
and faggots allude to the sacrifice to be performed. On the rear side of the
copper the name of Theodoor van Thulden is written by a later hand, though
this attribution is at the very least dubious. The style does not correspond to
other attributed works by Van Thulden.
46 [Flemish school]
Male nude seen from the back. 17th c.
Drawing, black chalk heightened with white, 47 x 28 cm, laid paper, unsigned
(several holes in paper at the bottom of the page with loss of image, large vertical
and horizontal creases from folding, occ. spots). Stuck under passe-partout, under
gilt. wooden frame (not studied outside frame).
200 / 300 €
A naked man seen from the back covering his face. Most likely a study for a scene
depicting the «Expulsion from Paradise».
Rare drawing on parchment
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47 [Flemish school]
CRUSSENS, Anthonie - Landscape with a Bridge over a Frozen
River with Skaters. C. 1652-1665.
Drawing, pen and brown ink, framing line in brown ink, 18,8 x 28,5 cm,
parchment, signed in lower centre (ink faded due to over-exposure to UV, some
sm. stains at right edge, sm. creases at upper right corner). Under passe-partout.
500 / 700 €
Nice animated drawing, picturing numerous skaters on a frozen river, near a
village. Anthonie Crussens (c. 1635 - 1665) was active in Brussels and specialised
in village and winter scenes in the style of Bruegel. Other drawings by his hand,
almost all on vellum, are now in the Collections of the Bruges Printroom, the
Kupferstichkabinett Berlin and the Brussels Royal Library.
Ref. Dumas, «Anthonie Crussens, een Vlaamse amateurtekenaar uit het midden
van de 17de eeuw», Delinaevit et Sculpsit 22 (2000), pp. 1-46. - D’ Haene,
«European Old Master Drawings from the Bruges Print Room», no. 19; note 4.
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