Live Auction 11974Old Master and British Paintings Day Sale
Marten Ryckaert (Antwerp 1587-1631)
Lot 128

Marten Ryckaert (Antwerp 1587-1631)

An extensive rocky river landscape with pilgrims on a path by a castle on a hill

Closed8 July 2016

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GBP 50,000

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Marten Ryckaert (Antwerp 1587-1631)
An extensive rocky river landscape with pilgrims on a path by a castle on a hill
oil on oak panel
20 x 26 ¼ in. (50.9 x 66.8 cm.)

Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie’s, London, 8 December 2006, lot 109 (£38,400), when acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

At the time of the 2006 sale (loc. cit.), Dr. Luuk Pijl confirmed the attribution of the present work to Ryckaert. Dr. Pijl dated the picture to circa 1615-20, on the basis of strong similarities with a smaller panel in a private collection, Madrid (see the exhibition catalogue, Pedro Pablo Rubens (1577-1640), Madrid, Palacio de Velazquez, 1977-8, no. 126, illustrated), as well as with another picture in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence, dated 1616 (Rubens e la pittura fiamminga del Seicento nelle collezioni pubbliche fiorentine, Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 1977, no. 106, illustrated).