Master Paintings Part II
Master Paintings Part II
Property from the Collection of David and Louise Carter
Willem de Heusch
An Italianate landscape with travelers and mules by a waterfall
Lot Closed
January 30, 03:42 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of David and Louise Carter
Willem de Heusch
Utrecht 1625 - 1692
An Italianate landscape with travelers and mules by a waterfall
remnants of a signature lower left
oil on canvas
canvas: 25 3/4 by 31 3/4 in.; 65 by 80.7 cm.
framed: 34 1/4 by 40 5/8 in.; 87 by 103.2 cm.
From whom acquired, 1950s.
Willem de Heusch was a Dutch Golden Age artist who specialized in Italianate landscapes in the style of Jan Both, with whom he is likely to have trained. De Heusch is thought to have travelled in Italy around 1640 but was back in Utrecht by 1649 where he is recorded as a dean of the Guild along with Jan Both and Cornelis Poelenburgh.
The present lot closely follows a painting by Jan Both that last appeared on the market in 1992.1 Like that example by Jan Both, the present composition is bathed in a similar golden light; lush foliage, boulders, and a gentle stream of water line a pathway that winds towards a rolling landscape beyond. Another example of this same composition that is of slightly larger dimensions and attributed to Jan Both is recorded in the Marburg Photo Archive in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin.2
1. Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 8 July 1992, lot 33.
2. Inv. no. 1969, oil on canvas, 92 by 99 cm. Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, no. gg1189.