Lot Essay
Werner Sumowski compares this with three other landscape drawings in the British Museum, Leipzig and Chantilly, W. Sumowski, op. cit., nos 1509x, 1510x and 1513x, respectively.
Unlike most of Rembrandt's landscapes, Koninck's are seen from a bird's eye view rather than at ground level. Koninck used dark wash in the foreground and lighter wash in the background, in order to emphasize the distances.
The Heinemann drawing is dated late in Koninck's career and was probably make as an independent work of art. Another drawing from the same period was sold at Drouot, Paris, 28 October 1994, lot 48, illustrated. A drawing of the same composition, thought by Sumowski to be an autograph replica of the present sheet, was sold at Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 14 November, 1988, lot 121, illustrated.
Other drawings by Koninck are signed in a similar way to the present sheet, such as Solomon's alien Wives worshipping Idols in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Brunswick, W. Sumowski, op. cit., no. 1346, illustrated. Felice Stampfle and Cara Denison have pointed out that drawings by other artists in Koninck's collection were also inscribed 'p ko' in red chalk on the versi, such as one by Breenbergh in the Institut Néerlandais, Paris, C. van Hasselt, Dessins de Paysagistes Hollandais du XVIIe Siècle, exhib. cat., Bibliothèque Albert I, Brussels and elsewhere, 1969, no. 26, illustrated.
Unlike most of Rembrandt's landscapes, Koninck's are seen from a bird's eye view rather than at ground level. Koninck used dark wash in the foreground and lighter wash in the background, in order to emphasize the distances.
The Heinemann drawing is dated late in Koninck's career and was probably make as an independent work of art. Another drawing from the same period was sold at Drouot, Paris, 28 October 1994, lot 48, illustrated. A drawing of the same composition, thought by Sumowski to be an autograph replica of the present sheet, was sold at Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 14 November, 1988, lot 121, illustrated.
Other drawings by Koninck are signed in a similar way to the present sheet, such as Solomon's alien Wives worshipping Idols in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Brunswick, W. Sumowski, op. cit., no. 1346, illustrated. Felice Stampfle and Cara Denison have pointed out that drawings by other artists in Koninck's collection were also inscribed 'p ko' in red chalk on the versi, such as one by Breenbergh in the Institut Néerlandais, Paris, C. van Hasselt, Dessins de Paysagistes Hollandais du XVIIe Siècle, exhib. cat., Bibliothèque Albert I, Brussels and elsewhere, 1969, no. 26, illustrated.