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François Ryckhals
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- François Ryckhals
- A wooded landscape
- Black chalk, within remains of brown ink framing lines;
bears inscriptions, in brown ink, recto, lower right: Ruysdae.. and verso: Ruysdael:f.
Provenance
A. Hyatt Mayor, his sale, Bethesda, Maryland, Waverly Auctions, 2 April 1998, lot 298 (as Attributed to Salomon van Ruysdael);
sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 9 November 1999, lot 32 (as Attributed to Frans Ryckhals)
sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 9 November 1999, lot 32 (as Attributed to Frans Ryckhals)
Catalogue Note
As the late Dr. Hans-Ulrich Beck pointed out at the time of the 1999 sale, he published another version of this drawing, showing only the central section of the composition, as Frans Ryckhals, in 1991.1 That drawing, subsequently sold at Sotheby's in Amsterdam2 and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. 2004.300), is very comparable to this in both style and quality.
While Ryckhals is relatively little known today, in the years around 1630 he was an influential landscape draughtsman. His style, itself much affected by the work of Willem Buytewech, was admired and emulated by the young Herman Saftleven and also by Aelbert Cuyp, alongside whom he worked in Dordrecht in 1633-34.
1. H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, vol. IV: Künstler um Jan van Goyen, Doornspijk 1991, no. 1043
2. Sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 4 November 2003, lot 34