Two larches

Details

Attributed to Philips van den Bossche (active Prague and Augsburg 1604-1615)
Two larches
pen and grey and brown ink
12¼ x 4¼ in. (310 x 122 mm.)

Provenance

Gift of P. & D. Colnaghi, Christmas 1948.

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Lot Essay

A very similar tree, drawn with the same delicate handling, is found in the right background of a drawing of A landscape with Tobias and the Angel associated with Philips van den Bossche now in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam (M. Ilsink, 'The Drawings of Philips van den Bossche', Master Drawings, XLIV (2006), no. 13, fig. 13). Van den Bossche was probably a native of 's-Hertogenbosch in Brabant, but is recorded after 1604 in Prague where he worked along with artists such as Paulus van Vianen, Roelandt Savery and Pieter Stevens at the Court of the Emperor Rudolf.

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