Lot Essay
This may be compared to a drawing of the Monterberg near Rhenen by Cuyp in the Kramarsky Collection, New York (H. Dattenberg, Niederrheinansichten Holländischer Künstler des 17. Jahrhunderts, Düsseldorf, 1967, p. 80, no. 90).
Drawings comparable in subject, handling, technique and size are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (H. Mules, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 42, 4, Spring 1985, illustrated p. 40), the British Museum, London (A.M. Hind, Catalogue of Drawings by Dutch and Flemish artists ... in the British Museum, London, 1926, III, p. 69, no. 6) and in the Teyler Museum, Haarlem (C.S. Ackley, M.C.C. Kersten, W.R. Robinson, C. van Tuyll van Serooskerken, From Michelangelo to Rembrandt, Master Drawings from the Teyler Museum, New York, 1989, pp. 133-4, no. 86), all datable to the early 1640s. All these are of landscapes drawn along the rivers Rhine and Waal, between Rhenen, Elten and Nijmegen, where many 17th Century Dutch landscape painters passed by when travelling south along the Rhine. Here Cuyp is also known to have travelled and worked extensively, often drawing 'near het leven' to use these studies later for pictures or as preliminary studies for finished coloured drawings, such as the present lot, intended for collectors.
Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann who is currently working on Cuyp's drawings, incorporating the material gathered by the late Professor J.G. van Gelder, has kindly confirmed the attribution on the basis of a photograph. He points out that some of the wash, mainly in the foreground, would seem to be additional
Drawings comparable in subject, handling, technique and size are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (H. Mules, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 42, 4, Spring 1985, illustrated p. 40), the British Museum, London (A.M. Hind, Catalogue of Drawings by Dutch and Flemish artists ... in the British Museum, London, 1926, III, p. 69, no. 6) and in the Teyler Museum, Haarlem (C.S. Ackley, M.C.C. Kersten, W.R. Robinson, C. van Tuyll van Serooskerken, From Michelangelo to Rembrandt, Master Drawings from the Teyler Museum, New York, 1989, pp. 133-4, no. 86), all datable to the early 1640s. All these are of landscapes drawn along the rivers Rhine and Waal, between Rhenen, Elten and Nijmegen, where many 17th Century Dutch landscape painters passed by when travelling south along the Rhine. Here Cuyp is also known to have travelled and worked extensively, often drawing 'near het leven' to use these studies later for pictures or as preliminary studies for finished coloured drawings, such as the present lot, intended for collectors.
Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann who is currently working on Cuyp's drawings, incorporating the material gathered by the late Professor J.G. van Gelder, has kindly confirmed the attribution on the basis of a photograph. He points out that some of the wash, mainly in the foreground, would seem to be additional