Lot 102: FREDERIK VAN VALCKENBORCH ANTWERP 1566 - 1623 NEURENBERG

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A MOUNTAINOUS RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH A CHAPEL AND A TAVERN, WITH FISHERMEN NEARBY

measurements note
130.8 by 192 cm.; 51 1/2 by 75 1/2 in.

oil on canvas

NOTE

A very similar landscape, of equally large dimensions, also deploying the central motifs of the chapel set before a fortified bluff as well as very similar groups of revellers and fishermen in the foreground was sold in these Rooms, 17 December 1998, lot 48.

We are grateful to Dr. Alexander Wied for endorsing the attribution to Frederick van Valckenborch on the basis of photographs.