A landscape with a fence, and a group of trees

Details

Attributed to Joachim Govertsz. Camphuysen (Gorinchem 1601-/02-1659 Amsterdam)
A landscape with a fence, and a group of trees
with inscriptions 'V. Goyen.' (recto) and 'Sruysdael' (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, brown ink framing lines
18.8 x 28.6 cm.

Literature

W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin, 1938, p. 60, fig. 65 (as Salomon van Ruysdael ?)
K.E. Simon, 'The Literature of Art: Salomon van Ruysdael', Burlington Magazine, LXXVI, no. 446, May 1940, p. 169, with a suggested attribution to Cornelis van Zwieten.
W. Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Berlin, 1975, p. 60 (as possibly Salomon van Ruysdael).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

In his book from 1938 on Salomon van Ruysdael's paintings, Stechow noted that he did not know any drawings that could be given to the artist without any doubts and compared the present drawing to Ruysdael's paintings from around 1630 (Stechow, op. cit., 1938, p. 60). However, Peter Schatborn feels that the attribution is not sustainable and has suggested the name of Camphuysen, another elusive draughtsman, as the author of this drawing on the basis of the compositional relationship with a signed painting by that artist (R.H. Ward; Frederik Muller et Cie, Amsterdam, 15 May 1934, lot 110).

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