Property from a Noble European collection
Jacob Koninck
Landscape with a house and farm buildings by a canal
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Property from a Noble European collection
Jacob Koninck
(Amsterdam 1614/16 - 1666)
Landscape with a house and farm buildings by a canal
Pen and brown ink and wash with touches of white heightening, over black chalk;
very slight sketches of rooftops in brown ink, verso:
the sheet extended by the artist with an added strip to the bottom;
bears numberings in brown ink, verso: 25 / 6 (Röver), h / 10, and inscription in pencil, verso: Rembrandt
85 by 198 mm
Valerius Röver (1686-1739), Delft (L.2984b-c);
James Forbes, 16th Lord Forbes (1724-1804), Aberdeenshire,
by descent to his grandson Charles Forbes René, Comte de Montalembert (1810-1870),
by family descent to the present owner
Strongly Rembrandtesque in its approach to the depiction of a quiet corner of the Dutch landscape - and indeed traditionally attributed to the master himself - this appealing drawing seems most closely comparable with similarly sized sheets that have been convincingly attributed to Jacob Koninck, who may have studied with Rembrandt in the early 1630s. With its mix of hatched and looping pen strokes, applied in all directions, and soft-focus tonal wash, a drawing in the British Museum that has been identified as the study for a 1663 print by Jacob Koninck is particularly close in style to this, as is another drawing of a location on the Diemerdijk outside Amsterdam, in the Morgan Library and Museum, New York.1
1.London, British Museum, inv. Oo,9.81; New York, The Morgan Library and Museum, inv. I, 178; W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. 6, New York 1982, nos. 1289 and 1292x respectively.
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