Attributed to Matthäus Merian I (1593-1650)

View of Sankt Jobst on the River Pegnitz, near Nuremberg

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Attributed to Matthäus Merian I (1593-1650)
View of Sankt Jobst on the River Pegnitz, near Nuremberg
with inscriptions '66 Breughel' on the mount
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and yellow wash, brown ink framing lines, on vellum
131 x 180 mm.

Engraved

The subject was etched, by Merian, as one of a series of six landscapes near Nuremberg, L.H. Wütrich, Das Druckgraphische Werk von Matthaeus Merian d.Ae., Basel, 1966, I, no. 231, fig. 110.

Lot Essay

Apparently a preliminary study for the etching of 1616 in the same direction, though of different sizes, see the following lot. A comparable drawing in the same technique attributed to Jan Breughel I, also on vellum but of larger format, signed, dated and inscribed 'Joan breugel.1616.den.10 ocktober. In neurenberg' and 'St. Jops Kerck', is in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (inv. no. 1908).

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