Lot 106: PHILIPP VAN DEN BOSSCHE

PHILIPP VAN DEN BOSSCHE ACTIVE PRAGUE AND AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1604 - 1615 RUGGED WOODED RIVER LANDSCAPE, WITH TRAVELLERS ON A ROAD AND A TOWN BEYOND Pen and olive-brown ink, within brown ink framing lines; bears inscription in brown ink, lower left: b , and in black chalk, verso : Rolant Savary 103 by 124 mm

T. Gerszi, Paulus van Vianen Handzeichnungen, Hanau 1982, p. 219, no. K. 18, fig. 127;
J.R. ter Molen, 'Van Vianen, een Utrechtse familie van Zilversmeden met een internationale faam,' diss., 2 vols., Leiden University, 1984, vol. 2, no. 314;
M. Ilsink, 'The Drawings of Philips van den Bossche', in Master Drawings, 44, no. 3, Autumn 2006, pp. 348-9, no. 12, reproduced fig. 15

Sale, London, Sotheby's, 1 July 1971, lot 89 (as R. Savery);
With Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam, 1973 (Master Drawings, no. 47, as P. van Vianen);
C. Beauchamp, Amsterdam;
sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 12 November 1990, lot 63 (as Van den Bossche)

This drawing was previously attributed to Paulus van Vianen; in proposing the attribution to Van den Bossche, Gerszi (loc. cit.) compared it to a landscape in Munich,υ1 while Matthijs Ilsink sees closer comparisons with two other sheets, in Weimar and Dresden.υ2 Van den Bossche was probably a native of 's-Hertogenbosch, but is recorded after 1604 in Prague, where he worked alongside artists such as Van Vianen, Roelandt Savery and Pieter Stevens at the Court of the Emperor Rudolf II.

1. W. Wegner, Die Niederländischen Handzeichnungen des 15.-18. Jahrhunderts, 2 vols., Berlin 1973, no. 10
2. Ilsink, op. cit., nos. 7 and 8.