Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
Quality in Detail. The Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection
Adriaen van Nieulandt the Younger
Rocky coastal landscape with travellers
Lot Closed
March 24, 02:20 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Adriaen van Nieulandt the Younger
Antwerp 1587 - 1658 Amsterdam
Rocky coastal landscape with travellers
Pen and grey ink and point of the brush and grey wash over traces of black chalk, within dark brown ink framing lines;
bears inscription, verso: 2 Stuks
192 by 310 mm
from whom purchased in 1959 by Hans van Leeuwen (1911-2010), Amsterdam/Amerongen (L.2799a),
his sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 24 November 1992, lot 148
Though born in Antwerp, Adriaen van Nieulandt the Younger spent almost all of his artistic career in Amsterdam, where his Calvinist family moved when he was very young. His brother, Willem van Nieulandt the Younger (1584-1635), was a significant painter of Italianate landscapes, as was his uncle, Willem van Nieulandt the Elder (1560-1626). The attribution of this atmospheric rocky landscape was first suggested by Peter Schatborn. A similarly executed landscape by Adriaen van Nieulandt, signed and dated 1649, is in the Leiden University Printroom, and another is in the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam.1For another landscape by Adriaen van Nieulandt the Younger, see lot 25.
1. W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1980, no. 444; G. Jansen and G. Luijten, Italianisanten en Bamboccianten, exh. cat., Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen 1988, pp. 100-101, no. 60