Attributed to Horatius de Hooch (active 1652-1686)
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Attributed to Horatius de Hooch (active 1652-1686)

The Arch of Janus Quadrifons in Rome

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Attributed to Horatius de Hooch (active 1652-1686)
The Arch of Janus Quadrifons in Rome
with inscription 'Polenburg.'
black chalk, grey wash, traces of black chalk framing lines, countermark S
26.7 x 43 cm.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap, Hoe Hollandse teekenaars Rome zagen 1500-1840, 1940 (no catalogue published).
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Lot Essay

There are few known drawings by Horatius de Hooch, who was active in Utrecht around 1652-1686. However, the technique of this drawing, with its loose handling of the wash for the hills and more precise for the architecture, is characteristic. It is closely comparable to the technique used in The Aurelian Wall in Rome (?) in the Landesmuseum, Mainz (see P. Schatborn, Drawn to Warmth: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Artists in Italy, exhib. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 2001, p. 140, Fig. A).

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