Lot 76: HERMAN VAN SWANEVELT

A TREE-CLAD ROCKY OUTCROP, WITH A DISTANT RIVER LANDSCAPE BEHIND

12 5/8 by 8 1/2 in; 319 by 216 mm

Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, within brown ink framing lines; slight black chalk sketches of three figures, verso;bears numbering, verso: 33

The attribution to Swanevelt was confirmed by Dr. Anne Charlotte Steland, in a communication dated 19 February 2006; she will include the drawing in her forthcoming catalogue of Swanevelt's drawings.

This seems to be a fairly late work by the artist, much freer in handling than the more formally constructed drawings of his early Roman period, circa 1624-35. It is comparable in execution to the Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, in the Courtauld Institute, which has been dated around 1641. (1)

1. See The Northern Landscape, exhib. cat., New York, The Drawing Center, and London, Courtauld Insitute Galleries, 1986, cat. 63