A mountainous wooded river landscape with travellers on a road

Details

Jan Hackaert (1629-after 1685)
A mountainous wooded river landscape with travellers on a road
signed (?) 'J. Hakkert' (recto) and signed and dated 'Hacker fecit 1656' (verso)
black lead, pen and brown ink, grey wash, brown ink framing lines, watermark Pascal lamb (?) in crowned shield
172 x 261 mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, lot 75, when acquired by the present owner.

Special notice

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.

Lot Essay

Hackaert left his native Amsterdam, travelling to Switzerland and Italy before returning there to settle in 1658. A number of drawings from his journeys are in the famous Atlas Blaeu in the Nationalbibliothek, Vienna. Judging from the date, the present drawing was presumably done in Switzerland (see also G. Solar, Jan Hackaert, Die Schweizer Ansichten 1653-1656, Zurich, 1981).

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