A hilly Italian landscape with a traveller in the foreground

Details

Circle of Cornelis van Poelenburch (Utrecht 1594/95-1667)
A hilly Italian landscape with a traveller in the foreground
pen and brown ink, brown wash, brown ink framing lines
22.3 x 35.4 cm.

Provenance

possibly C.de B (?); A.J. Van Huffel, Utrecht, 25-26 March 1925; where purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena for 5 guilders (Inventory book: '100. t. C. Poelenburg gezicht [?] in Rome') or
with R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena on 3 May 1929 for 20 guilders (Inventory book: '702. t. Poelenburg [...] landschap').

Literature

M. Chiarini, 'Ipotesi sugli inizi di Cornelis van Poelenburgh', Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek, XXIII, 1972, p. 207, fig. 6 (as Attributed to Cornelis van Poelenburgh)
R. Hohl, Claude Lorrain und die barocke Landschaftszeichung, revised dissertation, Basel, 1972, pp. 101-102 (as pseudo-Wals).
A. Chong, 'The Drawings of Cornelis Poelenburgh', Master Drawings XXV, 1987, 1, p. 53, no. A2 (as pupil of Poelenburgh)

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Italiaanse Tekeningen uit een Amsterdamse collectie, 24 April-28 June, 1970, no. 95, p. 30 (as Agostino Tassi; catalogue by I.Q. van Regteren Altena).

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

The present drawing was attributed to Agostino Tassi by I.Q. van Regteren Altena, and it was exhibited as such in the 1970 exhibition. However, in his 1987 article, Alan Chong gave the drawing to a hand identified as a 'pupil of Poelenburgh (Lorenzo Barata?)'. Chong also notes that the drawings in this group are not by a single hand, but in fact by as many as three artists.

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