Name: GILLIS CLAESZ. DE HONDECOETER (ANTWERP 1575/1580-1653 AMSTERDAM)
Brand: A village crossing by a river in a wooded landscape
Price: 7500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

GILLIS CLAESZ. DE HONDECOETER (ANTWERP 1575/1580-1653 AMSTERDAM)
A village crossing by a river in a wooded landscape
with inscription ' F: momper' (recto)and with number 'V: no 15 - /2' (verso)
pen and brown ink, brown wash, inscribed as circlular
8¹⁄₈ x 7¹⁄₈ in. (20.6 x 18.1 cm)

Heinrich Wilhelm Campe (1770-1862), Leipzig (L. 1391) and by descent to
Ernst H. Ehlers (1835-1925), Goettingen; Boerner, Leipzig, 9-10 May 1930, lot 272 (as Frans de Momper)
Julius Hess (1900-1940), Bern; Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, 1-2 December 1941, lot 427 (as Frans de Momper).

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Alongside other Flemish artists who moved to the Northern Netherlands, De Hondecoeter can be considered one of the pioneers of Dutch landscape painting. The present drawing compares closely to two considered the core of De Hondecoeter’s small drawn œuvre, at the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (inv. KdZ 11757) and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. RP-T-1951-11; see M. Schapelhouman, Nederlandse tekeningen omstreeks 1600/ Netherlandish Drawings circa 1600, The Hague, 1987, no. 31, ill.). Another drawing that appears to be by the same hand was offered at the sale Sotheby’s, London, 8 July 2015, lot 22 (as circle of De Hondecoeter).