Live Auction 3054The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part IV
Circle of Cornelis van Poelenburch (Utrecht 1594/95-1667)
Lot 267

Circle of Cornelis van Poelenburch (Utrecht 1594/95-1667)

A hilly Italian landscape with a traveller in the foreground

Closed13 May 2015

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EUR 312

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Circle of Cornelis van Poelenburch (Utrecht 1594/95-1667)
A hilly Italian landscape with a traveller in the foreground
pen and brown ink, brown wash, brown ink framing lines
22.3 x 35.4 cm.

possibly C.de B (?); A.J. Van Huffel, Utrecht, 25-26 March 1925; where purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena for 5 guilders (Inventory book: '100. t. C. Poelenburg gezicht [?] in Rome') or
with R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena on 3 May 1929 for 20 guilders (Inventory book: '702. t. Poelenburg [...] landschap').

Specialist note

The present drawing was attributed to Agostino Tassi by I.Q. van Regteren Altena, and it was exhibited as such in the 1970 exhibition. However, in his 1987 article, Alan Chong gave the drawing to a hand identified as a 'pupil of Poelenburgh (Lorenzo Barata?)'. Chong also notes that the drawings in this group are not by a single hand, but in fact by as many as three artists.