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Abraham Genoels

View of an Italian town (Tivoli?)

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March 24, 03:29 PM GMT

Estimate

2,400 - 3,400 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Abraham Genoels

Antwerp 1640 - 1723

View of an Italian town (Tivoli?)


Pen and brown ink over black chalk within brown ink framing lines;

bears old attribution in black chalk, verso: gaspar de Duguet

unframed: 277 by 415 mm

framed: 530 by 670 mm

Sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 15 November 1983, lot 274;
H.R. Bijl, The Hague,
sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 17 November 1993, lot 47

Abraham Genoels arrived in Rome in 1674. Each 'bentvogel', or member of the notoriously dissolute guild of Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome, was given a nickname by his fellow artists; Genoels was dubbed 'Archimedes,' supposedly in recognition of his extremely scientific approach to perspective.

A comparable landscape is in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.1  For another drawing by Genoels, see lot 93.


1. An Zwollo, Hollandse en Vlaamse veduteschilders te Rome 1675-1725, Assen 1973, p. 10, pl. 6