Abraham Casembrot
A harbour scene
No reserve
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Abraham Casembrot
Bruges circa 1593–1658 Messina
A harbour scene
bears an inscription on the recto in pen and brown ink: Cinque and an old attribution on the verso in pen and grey ink: il Loren..., and a numbering in pencil, along the left edge: H48
pen and brown ink and brown wash, over traces of red chalk, over a secondary black chalk sketch of the pen and ink figure seen bottom left
150 by 209 mm
Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram (1877-1963), Chesham (L.1405a),
Carl Winter (1906-1966), Cambridge (L.4782);
purchased by the late father of the present owner in London, circa 1960
After moving to Messina, a harbour town in Sicily, in 1626, Abraham Casembrot produced a large body of harbour and marine views, of which this spirited drawing is an interesting example; amusing for the inclusion of an underlying black chalk sketch of a standing figure, which he then repeats in the bottom left corner of the pen and ink composition.
The addition of the red chalk is unusual, however otherwise the drawing is stylistically typical for the artist. Several comparable drawings are now in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.1 The majority of the Fitzwilliam drawings were also in the Ingram collection and come from a group of sketchbook sheets that belonged first to the Roman artist Michelangelo Pacetti (1793-1865?)2 and then to the Staatlichen Museen, Berlin3.
1.https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/search/results?query=casembrot
2.(L.2057)
3.For further information on the group, see E. Bock and J. Rosenberg, Die Zeichnungen in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, die niederländischen Meister, 2 vols., Frankfurt 1931, pp. 103-106 (as Adrien van der Cabel)
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