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Materials:

point of the brush and brown and black ink, brown and grey wash

Measurements:

5.94 in. (15.10 cm.) (height) by 9.25 in. (23.50 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

with inscription 'Coc'

Exhibited:

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d’un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d’une collection privée d’Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 40, pl. 3 (catalogue by J. Giltaij).

Literature:

C. de Tolnay, 'An unknown early panel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder', in Scritti di Storia dell'Arte in onore di Lionello Venturi, Rome, 1956, I, p. 421, pl. 15.G.T. Faggin, 'Aspetti dell'influsso di Tiziano nei Paesi Bassi', Arte Veneta, XVIII, 1964, p. 48.H.G. Franz, Niederländische Landschaftsmalerei im Zeitalter des Manierismus, Graz, 1969, I, p. 148, note 20.T. Riggs, Hieronymus Cock 1510-170: Printmaker and Publisher at the Sign of the Four Winds, PhD thesis, Yale, 1971, p. 275, under no. 45, pl. 52.H. Mielke, in Pieter Bruegel d.Ä als Zeichner, exhib. cat., Berlin, Staatliche Museen, 1975, p. 112, under no. 139 and p. 113, under no. 140.M. Russell, Visions of the Sea: Hendrick C. Vroom and the Origins of Dutch Marine Painting, Leiden, 1983, pp. 12 and 14, fig. 17a.V. D'Haene, '"Landscapes in the New Italian or Antique Way": The Drawn Oeuvre of Matthijs Cock Reconsidered', Master Drawings, L, no. 3, 2012, no. B2, fig. 3. V. D'Haene, in Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print, exhib. cat., Leuven, M-Museum and Paris, Fondation Custodia, 2013, p. 350, under nos. 94, note 4, and 96a.

Provenance:

J.G.; R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 2 January 1928; where purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena for 50 guilders (Inventory book: '399. t. M. Cock. Christophorus in landschap').