A rocky landscape overgrown with trees

Details

Antonio del Castillo (Cordoba 1603-1667)
A rocky landscape overgrown with trees
with inscription 'mo. R[eales]' (recto) and with extensive inscriptions in Spanish (verso, laid down)
pen and brown ink, the borders irregular
11¼ x 8½ in. (312 x 217 mm.)

Provenance

Alfred Finot, his mark (not in Lugt).

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Lot Essay

Landscapes appear very frequently in the backgrounds of Castillo's drawings, although the present work is his only known pure landscape. Trees of the same type and drawn in the same style can be found in drawings in the Abello Collection, two in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, and in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg (M. Nancarrow and B. Navarrete Priero, Antonio del Castillo, Madrid, 2004, figs. 103, 105, 107 and 153).

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