Lot 104: HENDRIK VAN CLEVE III

HENDRIK VAN CLEVE III ANTWERP CIRCA 1525 - BETWEEN 1590/95 ITALIANATE LANDSCAPE CAPRICCIO WITH RUINS Pen and brown ink and wash; signed with monogram and dated, on pedestal, lower right: 1586 HVC 187 by 284 mm

Late in his career, Van Cleef made a number of drawings of Italianate landscapes, some topographically accurate, others, like this, capricci. Twelve of his drawings of landscapes with ruins were engraved by Adriaen Collaert and published in 1587, under the title Regionum, Rurium, Fundorum, Varii Amoeni Prospectus (Hollstein 535-546). Other known drawings of this type bear dates between 1584 and 1588.