Live Auction 18953Italian Drawings From The Robert Landolt Collection
Jean Cousin the Younger (probably Sens 1522-circa 1595 Paris)
Lot 30

Jean Cousin the Younger (probably Sens 1522-circa 1595 Paris)

A river landscape with an ancient town

Closed8 December 2020

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Jean Cousin the Younger (probably Sens 1522-circa 1595 Paris)
A river landscape with an ancient town
with number '61'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, mauve wash, the verso reddened
4 ½ x 7 in. (11.4 x 17.8 cm)

Private Swedish Collection (according to the Landolt typescript catalogue).
with Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm (1946, no. 237, as Paul Bril), where acquired by Robert Landolt.

Specialist note


The typical manner of depicting the trees and structuring the space, as well as the use of mauve wash, correspond to other landscape drawings by Cousin (see D. Cordellier, ‘Style et facture des dessins de Jean Cousin Fils’, in Jean Cousin père et fils. Une Famille de peintres au XVIe siècle, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2013, pp. 226-239). The head of a figure at lower left indicates that the landscape must have been part of a larger composition; two other, very similar fragments are at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (ibid., p. 235, figs. 282, 283).