GRABADOS ARENBERG 19.10.2019

51 [Flemish school]
After Philip FRUYTIERS - Presentation of the Holy Virgin.
1625-1666.
Drawing, pen and brown ink, with grey wash, 27,3 x 19 cm, laid paper, unsigned
(sm. tear at upper right). Under passe-partout and wooden frame. Not studied
outside frame.
1.000 / 1.200 €
Drawing of the presentation of Mary to God and the Holy Spirit by Anna and
Joseph. On a banderole the words «Nativitas Tua Virgo MAR Gaudium Universo
Mundo» can be read. The drawing is based on a print by Fruytiers with the
same subject and diverts from the printed version in various details such as the
singular God, the omission of the angels and the halos.
Ref. Hollstein IV:2.
Exceptional Flemish landscape drawing
Dessins et peintures anciens – Oude tekeningen & schilderijen
52 [Flemish school]
Circle of GRIMMER, Jacob - Landscape with Flemish village.
[Antwerp], late 16th or early 17th c.
Drawing, black chalk, 19 x 23,2 cm, laid paper without watermark, unsigned
(min. foxing at lower edge). Stuck under passe-partout, under mod. wooden
frame, studied outside frame.
3.000 / 4.000 €
54 [Flemish school]
Landscape with monk or bishop at the river side. [Flanders or
Northern France], c. 1570-1620.
Oil on panel, 21 x 16,2 cm, unsigned (several losses of paint near bottom of large
rock, bishop’s head and near the castle with support visible, rectangular drying
cracks throughout lower section). Under 20th-c. sextagonal frame with gilding.
400 / 500 €
Rolling hills with a typical Flemish farmhouse. On the left foreground a large
tree contributes depth and perspective to the design. The horizontal hatching
and atmospheric drawing style show the hand of a confident and skilled
draughtsman working at the closing decades of the sixteenth century, probably
in Antwerp or Brussels. Possible artists working in a similar drawing style are
Joos II De Momper (1564-1635), Jacob Grimmer (1525-1609) or Hendrik Gijsmans
(1552-1612). The drawing has previously been attributed to Jan Bruegel the
Younger, yet there is little stylistic argument to follow this attribution.
53 [Flemish school]
Hunters in a landscape. C. 1570-1634.
Drawing, black chalk heightened with white, 25,2 x 40,7 cm, blue-grey paper,
unsigned (crease at lower right edge, min. foxing hardly affecting the image).
Stuck by upper corners under passe-partout.
700 / 800 €
Two hunters in the left foreground stroll through a forest landscape with a ruin
in the far background. Drawn by a confident hand which recalls the best late
16th-century Flemish or Dutch draughtsmen. The drawing has been attributed
on the passe-partout to Roelant Savery (1576-1639). Aside from the hatching on
the leaves, there is little stylistic argument to confirm this attribution.
Ref. Kortrijk 2011, pp. 102-3. - Durham 1979.
Landscape in the tradition of Joachim Patinir with Italianesque rocks; divided
into three depth planes ranging from a brown foreground, a green middle plane
and a light blue or white background. Situated at the top of the rock is an idyllic
castle. In the left foreground a figure with a crozier and a bishop’s hat can be
discerned reading a book. At his feet a nude figure is seated, holding an object
in his left hand.
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