Lot 604: PHILIPS KONINCK

PHILIPS KONINCK AMSTERDAM 1619 - 1688 CHRIST PREACHING IN THE WILDERNESS Pen and brown ink and wash, within brown ink framing lines 147 by 108 mm; 5 3/4 by 4 1/4 in

Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. 6, New York 1982, cat. 1422υX (as Koninck)

Johann Wilhelm Nahl (L.1954);
Mortimer Brandt, New York (bears his collector's mark, M.B.N.Y., not in Lugt);
sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 21 March 1977, lot 79 (as Samuel van Hoogstraten);
sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 5 November 2002, lot 55 (as Koninck)

As Sumowski noted (loc. cit.), this drawing is comparable in style to works by Koninck such as the Christ Among the Doctors, in Leipzig (Sumowski 1398υX) and the Last Supper, in the Amsterdams Historisch Museum (Sumowski 1420υX). Though it was formerly attributed to Hoogstraten, the distincive, angular figure types and broad yet subtle use of wash are entirely typical of Koninck. On the basis of similarities between the landscape details and a signed and dated landscape drawing of 1660, formerly in the Koenigs Collection (Sumowski 1358), Sumowski proposes a dating of circa 1660 for the present drawing too.