Lot 566
  • 566

Adam van Noort

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Adam van Noort
  • a scene of exodus with women and children resting in the foreground, others walking in procession in the distance
  • Pen and gray ink and wash, heightened with white, on blue paper

Provenance

Sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 11 November 1997, lot 16

Condition

Unframed. Laid down. There are some small spots of very light brown discolouration, but these are barely noticeable and overall the sheet is in excellent condition.
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Catalogue Note

Though he was the teacher of both Rubens and Jordaens, van Noort's own works have received little attention, and few drawings have been securely attributed to him.  The most similar in execution to this is a drawing of an outdoor merry company, in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne.1  For a general discussion of van Noort's drawings, and examples of signed sheets, see Christian Dittrich, 'Drawings by Adam van Noort', Master Drawings, vol. X, no. 2 (1972), pp. 137-143, pls. 22-25

1. See H. Mielke, 'Einige Zeichnungen Adam van Noorts' in Essays in Northern European Art presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on his Sixtieth Birthday, Doornspijk 1983, p. 177, reproduced fig. 7