Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
François van Knibbergen
Country Road, with buildings to the left
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July 5, 10:16 AM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description
François van Knibbergen
Dutch, active circa 1629 - after 1664
Country Road, with buildings to the left
Black chalk and grey wash, within pen and dark brown ink framing lines;
bears numbering in pen and brown ink, upper right: No. 32
134 by 190 mm
Gerard Meijer (b.1946), Rotterdam (L.5805)
As the unidentified sale catalogue entry attached to the mount records, this energetic and atmospheric drawing was formerly attributed to Salomon van Ruysdael, but in fact it seems close to the one known signed drawing by the Hague landscape painter François van Knibbergen, an intriguing sheet now in Leiden.1 The sharp, almost ink-like accents of dark chalk and swirling foreground shading are comparable in both drawings.
1. Leiden, Prentenkabinet der Rijksuniversiteit, inv. 1671; see H.-U. Beck, Jan van Goyen, vol IV, Künstler um Jan van Goyen, Doornspijk 1991, p. 223, no. 604