Vente aux enchères en direct 10252The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection. Part I
Jan Lievens (Leiden 1607-1674 Amsterdam)
Lot 43

Jan Lievens (Leiden 1607-1674 Amsterdam)

A country house with a grand gateway beside a stream

Fermé10 July 2014

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Jan Lievens (Leiden 1607-1674 Amsterdam)
A country house with a grand gateway beside a stream
point of the brush and brown ink, touches of pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark foolscap
8 1/8 x 12 3/8 in. (20.6 x 31.5 cm.)

Unidentified collector's inscriptions 'G.' and 'N. 29' (in red crayon).
L.X. Lannoy et al.; R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 19 May 1925, lot 399.
H.B., London, et al.; R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 26-27 June 1928, lot 162.
Probably purchased at the above sale by Nicolaas Beets (1878-1963), Amsterdam; from whom purchased in June 1928 by I.Q. van Regteren Altena for 350 guilders (Inventory book: '491. t. J. Lievens boerderij').

Note du spécialiste

Part of a group of landscape drawings, utilising fluid and expressive brushwork, many of which represent wooded scenes or studies of country houses and farms. The present drawing is very comparable in style to the Farm Building among Trees at Christ Church, Oxford (J. Byam Shaw, Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford, 1976, I, no. 1410, II, pl. 836). Although the group was given to Lievens by Schneider, it was then for some years attributed, incorrectly, to Johannes Leupenius (circa 1646-1693) (see, for example, Bernt op. cit.). The attribution to Lievens was reinstated by Sumowski who noted that there was no plausible link to Leupenius.