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Lot Essay
The house on the right is the huis Kostverloren, a country house often represented by Dutch artists 17th Century, and in the background is shown the village of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel with its church.
In her dissertation on the artist, Maria Simon did not give the present drawing to Visscher but instead suggested an attribution to Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) (Simon, op. cit. no. 142). More recently, it was given to Visscher by Jan Peeters and Erik Schmitz who pointed out to the fact that capricci like this one are frequent in Visscher's oeuvre (Peeters and Schmitz, op. cit., pp. 37-8). The
drawing can be compared to a Ruinous city gate on a river in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem which is a preliminary drawing for an etching by the artist, dated 1612 (inv. O 8e; M. Plomp, The Dutch Drawings in the Teylers Museum, II, 'Artists born between 1575 and 1630’, Haarlem, 1997, no. 504).
We are grateful to David Burmeister Kaaring for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.
In her dissertation on the artist, Maria Simon did not give the present drawing to Visscher but instead suggested an attribution to Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) (Simon, op. cit. no. 142). More recently, it was given to Visscher by Jan Peeters and Erik Schmitz who pointed out to the fact that capricci like this one are frequent in Visscher's oeuvre (Peeters and Schmitz, op. cit., pp. 37-8). The
drawing can be compared to a Ruinous city gate on a river in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem which is a preliminary drawing for an etching by the artist, dated 1612 (inv. O 8e; M. Plomp, The Dutch Drawings in the Teylers Museum, II, 'Artists born between 1575 and 1630’, Haarlem, 1997, no. 504).
We are grateful to David Burmeister Kaaring for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.