Lot 16: f - FREDERIK VAN VALCKENBORCH ANTWERP 1566 - 1623 NUREMBERG

VIEW OF A BEND IN A RIVER IN A FORESTED MOUNTAIN VALLEY

VIEW OF A BEND IN A RIVER IN A FORESTED MOUNTAIN VALLEY

measurements note
196 by 306mm

pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk

PROVENANCE

Bears unidentifed collector's mark (L.44a), associated with drawings by Valckenborch formerly in an album owned by Archduke Friedrich von Habsburg-Lorraine (1865-1932);
the album placed by him on deposit at the Albertina, Vienna;
subsequently sold in 1919 to M. Hirsemann, Leipzig;
with Gustav Nebehay, 1928, who dispersed the album;
sale Berlin, Auction Rosen, 11-15 May 1959, lot 316, reproduced (as Gillis van Valckenborch);
with C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, Neue Lagerliste 38., 1964, no. 126, plate 52;
Kurt Meissner (his collector's mark, verso, not in Lugt)

EXHIBITED

Bremen, et al, 1967-8, cat. no. 138, reproduced;
Stanford, et al, 1969-70, cat. no. 52, reproduced
Zürich, 1984, cat. no. 70, reproduced

NOTE

We are very grateful to Rhea Blok of the Fondation Custodia, Paris, for providing the earlier provenance information for this drawing. The sheet was originally part of a sketchbook of some 55 topographical views and landscape capricci, made by Valckenborch during a journey through South Germany and the Tyrol in 1598-9 (see E. Benesch (ed.), 'Frederick van Valckenborch. Part V', in Otto Benesch. From an Art Historian's Workshop, Lucerne 1979, pp. 45-76). A comparable drawing from the sketchbook is in the Lugt Collection at the Institut Néerlandais, Paris (see K. G. Boon, The Netherlandish and German Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, 3 vols., Paris 1992, cat. 210, reproduced vol. III, pl. 227).