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Adam Pynacker (1621-1673)

A View of the Hills at Kleves looking along the River Rhine towards the City of Emmerich

signed and inscribed 'Adam Pynacker Cleef.ziende na Embrik'; black lead, pen and brown ink, grey wash, on two separate sheets of paper, watermark Strasburg lily with letters WR, countermark letters PM, framed
240 x 587 mm.
Provenance
Earl Spencer (L. 1531)

Lot Essay

A signed drawing of very similar subject and technique of slightly smaller dimensions, but also on two sheets, is in the Louvre, E. Starcky, Inventaire Général des Dessins des Ecoles du Nord, Supplement, Paris, 1988, no. 268, illustrated.
Another drawing comparable in handling, technique and signed in the same way is in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam, inv.no. 64:59

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