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A battlefield before a town, mountains in the background
Details
Jacques Courtois, called il Borgognone (Saint-Hippolyte 1621-1676 Rome)
A battlefield before a town, mountains in the background
with inscription 'v. d. Meulen' and with number 'n° 167' (verso).
pen and brown ink, grey wash, watermark arrow, lower edge made up
10 1/3 x 14 3/8 in. (26.2 x 36.8 cm.)
A battlefield before a town, mountains in the background
with inscription 'v. d. Meulen' and with number 'n° 167' (verso).
pen and brown ink, grey wash, watermark arrow, lower edge made up
10 1/3 x 14 3/8 in. (26.2 x 36.8 cm.)
Provenance
C. Otto (L. 611c); C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 7 november 1929, lot 96 as 'Adam Frans van der Meulen'.
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Sale room notice
We thank Nathalie Lallemand-Buyssens for having pointed out that this is a study by Courtois for his painting now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden (inv. 745). She will include the drawing in her forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Courtois’s work.
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