Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Hans Bol
Landscape with a small town, a castle to the right and a Church in the distance
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January 25, 04:44 PM GMT
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15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Hans Bol
Mechelen 1534 - 1593 Amsterdam
Landscape with a small town, a castle to the right and a Church in the distance
Pen and brown ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk, within brown ink and black chalk framing lines:
signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: Hans Bol 1586
147 by 216 mm; 5 ⅝ by 8 ½ in.
his sale, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 9-10 May 1930, lot 57;
with L. Franklyn, London, 1957;
Jacob Theodor Cremer,
his sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 17 November 1980, lot 48
As Stefaan Hautekeete has described, Bol's drawings of this type, though fully signed and dated and certainly made as finished works for sale, often also served as the basis for the artist's typical gouaches, in which we usually see the original, drawn landscape composition completed with figures and other additional details.1
In the case of this well-preserved drawing no corresponding gouache is known, but we are grateful to Dr. Hautekeete for informing us that the National Gallery in Prague has in its collection a drawn copy, by a certain Aelbrecht tot Vadder, in which the composition is elaborated in this way, suggesting that the Prague copy was actually made not after the present drawing, but after a now unknown gouache that was based on it.
1. S. Hautekeete, 'New Insights into the Working Methods of Hans Bol,' Master Drawings, vol.50, no.3 (Autumn 2012), pp.329-356