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THOMAS WIJCK (BEVERWIJK 1616/1621-1670 HAARLEM)
Lot 84 Property from the Estate of Sylvia Paine Constable

THOMAS WIJCK (BEVERWIJK 1616/1621-1670 HAARLEM)

A street in an Italian town, with figures

Closed1 February 2024

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THOMAS WIJCK (BEVERWIJK 1616⁄1621-1670 HAARLEM)
A street in an Italian town, with figures
signed ‘TWijck’ (‘TW’ intertwined, lower left)
black chalk or graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, pen and brow ink framing lines, watermark foolscap and three circles
6 x 9 1⁄8 in. (15.1 x 23.1 cm)

Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt (circa1840-1914), Berlin (L. 2926); Prestel, Frankfurt, 5 October 1917, lot 667.
Curt Otto (1880-1929), Leipzig (L. 611c); C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 7 November 1929, lot 161.
Carl Robert Rudolf (1884-1974), London (L. 2811b).
John D. Constable (1927-2016), Cambridge MA; then by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

This characteristic Italianate landscape by Wijck can be compared – in style, subject, technique and in its signature – to such examples as those in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. RP-T-A-1888-1543, RP-T-1900-A-4437; see P. Schatborn, with J. Verberne, Drawn to Warmth. 17th-Century Dutch Artists in Italy, exhib. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 2001, p. 120, figs. H, I). The present sheet may depict a corner in Rome, where Wijck probably stayed somewhere between 1644 and 1652.