Live Auction 2511Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors Part II
Jacob Savery I (Courtrai circa 1545-1602 Amsterdam)
Lot 267

Jacob Savery I (Courtrai circa 1545-1602 Amsterdam)

View of a town in a mountainous landscape, with a bridge in the foreground

Closed26 January 2011

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Jacob Savery I (Courtrai circa 1545-1602 Amsterdam)
View of a town in a mountainous landscape, with a bridge in the foreground
signed with monogram and dated 'IS 1585' (twice, lower left)
traces of black chalk, bodycolor, on vellum laid down on panel
4 7/8 x 9 in. (12.2 x 22.7 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 March 1902, lot 23, as 'Souje' (3 gns. to Money).

Specialist note

This early work, which still bears the strong influence of Hans Bol, Savery's master, can be compared to two others in bodycolor on vellum executed circa 1584-6: the Landscape with the story of Jephthah's daughter in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. A2117) and the Landscape with a city by the sea in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden (H.G. Franz, Niederländische Landschaftsmalerei im Zeitalter des Manierismus, Graz, 1969, I, p. 295, II, figs. 467-68).