Attributed to Claes Jansz. Visscher II (Amsterdam 1586-1652)
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Attributed to Claes Jansz. Visscher II (Amsterdam 1586-1652)

A capriccio of the huis Kostverloren on the Amstel, with Ouderkerk in the background

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Attributed to Claes Jansz. Visscher II (Amsterdam 1586-1652)
A capriccio of the huis Kostverloren on the Amstel, with Ouderkerk in the background
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, brown ink framing lines
18 x 25.7 cm.
Provenance
with Van Hoorn, Amsterdam; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena on 24 December 1928 for 30 guilders (Inventory book: '605. t. Cl. Jsz Visscher?? ijsvermaak').
Literature
M. Simon, Claes Jansz. Visscher, inaugural dissertation Freiberg, 1958 (typescript), no. 142 (as Rejected, with a suggested attribution to Hendrick Avercamp).
J. Peeters and E. Schmitz, 'Belangrijke aanwinst voor Gemeentearchief: een blad met twee onbekende tekeningen van Claes Jansz. Visscher', Amstelodamum, LXXXIV, no. 2, 1997, p. 37 (as Claes Jansz. Visscher).
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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.

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