A mountain landscape with a fortified chapel

Details

Circle of Paul Bril (Antwerp 1554-1626 Rome)
A mountain landscape with a fortified chapel
with inscriptions 'P. Bril f' (recto) and 'del sig: re anibale'
pen and brown ink, watermark encircled bird, ink gall damage
210 x 275 mm.

Provenance

With J.P. Meulemeester, Brussels.

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Lot Essay

The present composition follows Bril's drawing in the Louvre (L.W. Ruby, Paul Bril, The Drawings, Turnhout 1999, cat. no. 43, fig. 45). Another version of the composition, attributed to Lodewijk Toeput, il Pozzoserrato, was formerly in a European Private Collection (Sotheby's, Paris, 16 December 2004, lot 11).

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