LOT DETAILS

Materials:

brush and greyish-green ink~ wash~ heightened with opaque-white~ on paper

Measurements:

10.63 in. (27.00 cm.) (height) by 18.70 in. (47.50 cm.) (width)

Condition:

framed; mounted

Literature:

For comparable works by Grimmer see: Heinrich Gerhard Franz, Niederländische Landschaftsmalerei im Zeitalter des Manierismus (Forschungen und Berichte des Kunsthistorischen Institutes der Universität Graz, Graz 1969, Fig. 361; and Heinrich Gerhard Franz in: Unbekannte Landschaftszeichnungen von Jacob Grimmer, Fig. 361; in: Pantheon 27, pp. 213-223; Reine de Bertier de Sauvigny, Jacob et Abel Grimmer. Catalogue Raisonné, Brussels 1991

Provenance:

European private collection., The attribution to Jacob Grimmer was confirmed by Dr. Teréz Gerszi in a written notice (15. Februar 2017) on the basis of a digital photograph. A comparable landscape drawing by Grimmer (c. 1575-1580) is kept in the British Museum (1861, 0810.43