Live Auction 17081Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours Including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna
Circle of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam)
Lot 93

Circle of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam)

A carriage on a road flanked by trees

Closed2 July 2019

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GBP 37,500

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Circle of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam)
A carriage on a road flanked by trees
pen and brown ink, brown wash, on ledger paper, pen and brown ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark with letters WR
5½ x 7 7/8 in. (13.9 x 20.1 cm)

Sir Henry Streathfield.
Mr and Mrs Edward Speelman, London, by 1948.

Specialist note

Benesch considered this loosely drawn landscape to be by Rembrandt, noting the ‘intensive suggestion of spatial and atmospheric depth achieved in a manner as rhapsodic as it is monumental' (op. cit., no. 1332). Peter Schatborn recently suggested that the drawing can be compared to a sheet attributed to Heyman Dullaert showing a landscape with a road, executed in a similar technique, in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (H. Bevers, Zeichnungen der Rembrandtschule Im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett. Kritischer Katalog, Dresden, 2018, no. 52, ill).
We are grateful to Peter Schatborn and Martin Royalton-Kisch for their assistance in cataloguing this drawing.