Attributed to Martin van Valkenborch I (1535-1612)

THE PROPERTY OF THE NEDERLANDS ECONOMISCH HISTORISCH ARCHIEF, AMSTERDAM

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Attributed to Martin van Valkenborch I (1535-1612)

A view of an iron mine and foundry by the river Meuse

oil on panel
44.4 x 70.5 cm

来源

(possibly) with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1924 from whom purchased by the Nederlandsch Economisch Historish Archief (see Jaarverslag van den Directeur), in Economisch-Historisch Jaarboek, XI, 1925, p. XXXV and p. XXXIX

出版

M.G. de Boer, Guillaume 1er et les Débuts de l'Industrie Mètallurgique en Belgique in Revue Belge de Philogogie et d'Histoire, III, 1924, pp. 538 and 552
J. Stiennon, Les Sites Mosans de Lucas I et Martin I van Valkenborch, 1954, p. 22, as Lucas van Valkenborch
R. Evrard, Les Artistes et les Usines à Fer. Oeuvres d'Art inspirées par les Usines à Fer, 1955, pp. 49 and 51, fig. 30, as Lucas van Valkenborch
A. Wied, Lucas van Valkenborch, phil. diss., 1970, p. 200, no. 113
A. Wied, Lucas van Valkenborch, in Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien, LXVII, 1971, p. 216, no. 102
A. Wied, Lucas und Marten van Valkenborch, 1990, p. 279, no. 47, with ill.

展览

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Internationale Economisch Historisch Tentoonstelling, 4 July-15 September 1929, no. 193, as Lucas van Valkenborch
Amsterdam, Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Tentoonstelling van Werken van Joost de Momper, eenige Voorlopers en Tijdgenoten, 6 December 1930-15 January 1931, no. 107, as Frederick van Valkenborch

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拍品专文

The present lot depicts the industrial activity which developed chiefly in the valley of the Meuse in the sixteenth century. It depicts an iron ore basin, a blast furnace and foundry. Bars of steel were transported throughout Europe on the river network. Earlier depicted by Patinier and Herrie met de Bles, the iron foundries were several times depicted by Lucas van Valkenborch who as a Protestant had fled from Malines to Liège in 1562; six depictions of the theme are known by his older brother Martin (including details in the depictions of the Tower of Babel). None of the sites in the latter's pictures have been identified. They all date from after 1600 when the artist had settled in Frankfurt.

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