Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

Herman Saftleven

A Rhine landscape, with boats and figures in the foreground

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Herman Saftleven

Rotterdam 1609 - 1685 Utrecht

A Rhine landscape, with boats and figures in the foreground

Black chalk and brown wash;

bears old attribution in black chalk, verso: H. Saftleven / Ec. Hollandaise and H. Zaftleven

and bears numbering in brown ink, verso: 20/16

171 by 261 mm

Giovanni Morelli (1816-1891), Milan and Bergamo (L.1902)

A stylistically similar Rhenish landscape, depicting watermen on the bank of a river, was previously in the Jacobus A. Klaver collection, Amsterdam.¹

1. W. Schulz, Herman Saftleven 1609-1685, Berlin/New York 1982, pp. 451-2, no. 1288; sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, The Jacobus A. Klaver Collection of Dutch Old Master Drawings, 10 May 1994, lot 26