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The attribution to Jacob van Ruisdael has kindly been confirmed on the basis of a photograph by Seymour Slive in a letter dated 21 September 2000. Dr. Slive added that 'the foreground has almost certainly been worked-up by Isaac de Moucheron'.
This drawing was executed as a pendant to a drawing now in the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, M.C. Plomp, op. cit., no. 414. Both drawings were acquired for 14 florins around 1690 by Sybrand Feitama (1620-1701), an artist-collector contemporary to Ruisdael. They were described in the drawing inventory of the family as '2 Gezichten in 't Haagsche Bosch, omtr: ao 1670: waarin de voorgond is opgemmakt ao 1700 door J. de Moucheron' (Two views of the Haagsche Bosch, about 1670, in which the foreground was finished in 1700 by J. de Moucheron), B.P.J. Broos, op. cit., p. 24. The drawings passed from the collection of Feitema the Elder to the younger Feitama and were described again in the Feitema auction catalogue as 'embellished' by Isaac de Moucheron (1667-1744, cf. lot 173 of the present sale). The catalogue added that the figures were by Nicolaes Verkolje, a statment refuted by modern art historians.
The amount of reworking the Feitama commissioned for their drawing collection varied, sometimes is only involved the framing lines and at other times slightly more. Michiel Plomp described the 'embellishment' of the Haarlem drawing as 'The collaboration may be judged a success, the fine brushwork of De Moucheron in the foreground effectively complementing Ruisdael's strong chalk drawing in the background', op. cit., p. 363.
The Teyler drawing, which is done on a sheet of the same size and watermark, represents three oak trees on the fringe of a wood with figures in the foreground bathing in a river.
The drawings are probably datable to 1655-60 (J. Giltay, op. cit., pp. 155 and 195), and not 1670 as stated in the Feitama inventories. The Feitama list also describes the drawings as being views of the woods around The Hague.
This drawing was executed as a pendant to a drawing now in the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, M.C. Plomp, op. cit., no. 414. Both drawings were acquired for 14 florins around 1690 by Sybrand Feitama (1620-1701), an artist-collector contemporary to Ruisdael. They were described in the drawing inventory of the family as '2 Gezichten in 't Haagsche Bosch, omtr: ao 1670: waarin de voorgond is opgemmakt ao 1700 door J. de Moucheron' (Two views of the Haagsche Bosch, about 1670, in which the foreground was finished in 1700 by J. de Moucheron), B.P.J. Broos, op. cit., p. 24. The drawings passed from the collection of Feitema the Elder to the younger Feitama and were described again in the Feitema auction catalogue as 'embellished' by Isaac de Moucheron (1667-1744, cf. lot 173 of the present sale). The catalogue added that the figures were by Nicolaes Verkolje, a statment refuted by modern art historians.
The amount of reworking the Feitama commissioned for their drawing collection varied, sometimes is only involved the framing lines and at other times slightly more. Michiel Plomp described the 'embellishment' of the Haarlem drawing as 'The collaboration may be judged a success, the fine brushwork of De Moucheron in the foreground effectively complementing Ruisdael's strong chalk drawing in the background', op. cit., p. 363.
The Teyler drawing, which is done on a sheet of the same size and watermark, represents three oak trees on the fringe of a wood with figures in the foreground bathing in a river.
The drawings are probably datable to 1655-60 (J. Giltay, op. cit., pp. 155 and 195), and not 1670 as stated in the Feitama inventories. The Feitama list also describes the drawings as being views of the woods around The Hague.