ISAAC DE MOUCHERON (AMSTERDAM 1667-1744)

The composition of the present, unpublished drawing was one that the artist seems to have been particularly satisfied with, as it reappears in several other works. A somewhat less worked-up and unsigned sheet is in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt (inv. 3207; see N. Wedde, Isaac de Moucheron (1667-1744). His Life and Works with a Catalogue Raisonné of his drawings, Watercolours, Paintings and Etchings, Frankfurt and other cities, 1996, I, no. W91, II, fig. 153). The composition appears again as the left half of a sheet, executed in red and black chalk and grey wash, previously in the collection of Ian Woodner (later Christie’s, London, 2 July 1991, lot 220; see ibid., I, no. D135, II, fig; 62), which served as the model for an etching of the same composition, in reverse, which follows the drawing closely (ibid., I, no. E50, II, fig. 267).