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Anthonie Erkelens
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description
- Anthonie Erkelens
- A wooden barn on the edge of a village, a windmill and church spire on the horizon
- Pen and brown ink and watercolor, within brown ink framing lines
Provenance
Dr. Heinrich Beckmann, Bremen (L.2756a);
Ernst Jürgen Otto (L.873b);
Saam and Lily Nijstad, The Hague,
their sale ('The Unicorno Collection'), Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 19 May 2004, lot 307;
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 28 January 2009, lot 137
Ernst Jürgen Otto (L.873b);
Saam and Lily Nijstad, The Hague,
their sale ('The Unicorno Collection'), Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 19 May 2004, lot 307;
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 28 January 2009, lot 137
Catalogue Note
One of a stylistically coherent group of landscape drawings with watercolour, which have only recently come to be attributed to this previously little-known Rotterdam artist. Formerly, these drawings were generally given either to Jacob van Strij or, if they contained figures in 17th-century costume, to Anthonie van Borssom. For two examples of similarly conceived landscapes by Erkelens, see Een kunstkast gaat open; Tekeningen uit de verzameling Teding van Berkhout, exhibition catalogue, Haarlem, Teylers Museum, 1995-6, cat. no. 57, and Travels through Town and Country, Dutch and Flemish Landscape Drawings 1550-1830, exhibition catalogue, Haarlem, Teylers Museum, 2000, cat. no. 96.