A classical landscape with ruins and an offering scene

The composition of the present, unpublished drawing was one that the artist seems to have been particularly satisfied with, as it reappears in several other works. A somewhat less worked-up and unsigned sheet is in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt (inv. 3207; see N. Wedde, Isaac de Moucheron (1667-1744). His Life and Works with a Catalogue Raisonné of his drawings, Watercolours, Paintings and Etchings, Frankfurt and other cities, 1996, I, no. W91, II, fig. 153). The composition appears again as the left half of a sheet, executed in red and black chalk and grey wash, previously in the collection of Ian Woodner (later Christie’s, London, 2 July 1991, lot 220; see ibid., I, no. D135, II, fig; 62), which served as the model for an etching of the same composition, in reverse, which follows the drawing closely (ibid., I, no. E50, II, fig. 267).