Lot Essay
The attribution has been kindly suggested by Dr Albert Blankert in a letter of 19 August 1995, who compares the handling of the architecture to that in A Farm near Nantes (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandtschüler, I, 1983, p. 470, no. 238, with ill.) and The Pont Neuf at Angers (Louvre, Paris; Sumoswki, op.cit., no. 239).
Doomer is mostly known as a draughtsman. His painted oeuvre is so far limited to twenty-five works (Sumowski, op.cit., nos. 216/240), of which only four landscapes. However numerous paintings are mentioned in old inventories (see Sumowski, op.cit., p. 465, who lists forty-two paintings which still have to be identified).
Blankert tentatively suggests that the present lot could be identical with the picture listed as 'Catzenelleboge aen den Rhijn' mentioned in Doomer's estate in 1702 (see A. Bredius, Künstlerinventare, I, 1915, p. 78). Doomer is known to have travelled in this area around 1663; like as he did following his trip to France in 1645/46, he must later have worked from sketches. No sketch relating to the present composition has as yet come to light
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Doomer is mostly known as a draughtsman. His painted oeuvre is so far limited to twenty-five works (Sumowski, op.cit., nos. 216/240), of which only four landscapes. However numerous paintings are mentioned in old inventories (see Sumowski, op.cit., p. 465, who lists forty-two paintings which still have to be identified).
Blankert tentatively suggests that the present lot could be identical with the picture listed as 'Catzenelleboge aen den Rhijn' mentioned in Doomer's estate in 1702 (see A. Bredius, Künstlerinventare, I, 1915, p. 78). Doomer is known to have travelled in this area around 1663; like as he did following his trip to France in 1645/46, he must later have worked from sketches. No sketch relating to the present composition has as yet come to light
See colour illustration