Claes Moeyaert (Amsterdam 1592-1655)

Figures in a river landscape with ruins

Details

Claes Moeyaert (Amsterdam 1592-1655)
Figures in a river landscape with ruins
pen and brown ink, brown ink framing lines
17 x 28.4 cm.

Provenance

with Nicolaas Beets (1878-1963), Amsterdam; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena on 15 June 1926 for 35 guilders (Inventory book: '142. t. C. Moeyaert landschap').

Literature

J.G. van Gelder, Jan van de Velde 1593-1641: teekenaar schilder, The Hague, 1933, p. 56, no. 12, pl. 20 (as Jan van de Velde).
A. Stefes, Niederländische Zeichnungen 1450-1850, Kupferstichkabinett der Hamburger Kunsthalle, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna, 2011, I, under no. 664, note 2 (as Claes Moeyaert).

Exhibited

Sacramento, Crocker Art Gallery, The Pre-Rembrandtists, 1974-75, p. 36, pl. 51 (as Claes Moeyaert; catalogue by A. Tümpel).

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Lot Essay

With its delicate rendering of the trees and the architecture in the background this is probably one of Moeyaert's earliest drawings (Tümpel, op. cit., p. 36). It is comparable to a Landscape with shepherds driving their flock past a ruined bridge, also given to Moeyaert, in the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth (M. Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Northern European Drawings, Turin, London, Venice, 2002, III, no. 1460).

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