Lot 122: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION f - LUCAS VAN VALCKENBORCH I LEUVEN 1535 OR AFTER - 1597

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION f - LUCAS VAN VALCKENBORCH I LEUVEN 1535 OR AFTER - 1597 FRANKFURT AM MAIN AN EXTENSIVE MOUNTAINOUS LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES BEFORE AN IRON FOUNDRY

oil on copper

PROVENANCE

Dr. Einar Perman collection, Stockholm;
With Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam, by 1965, from whom acquired by the present owner.
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

A. Wied, "Nachträge zu Lucas und Marten van Valckenborch", in Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums, vol. 6, 2004 (forthcoming publication expected in autumn 2005), reproduced in colour fig. 19, under "attributions" (as 'Attributed to Lucas van Valckenborch or workshop?').
CATALOGUE NOTE

Though not known to Dr. Alexander Wied at the time of writing his monograph on Lucas and Marten van Valckenborch, Dr. Wied has more recently tentatively endorsed the attribution to Lucas van Valckenborch on the basis of photographs and a colour transparency (written communication, 28 February and 16 April 2005). Dr. Wied plans to publish the present work in a forthcoming article on the works of Lucas and Marten van Valckenborch (see Literature below). The iron foundry is a motif which recurs in a number of works by the artist, including a panel also formerly in the Perman collection in Stockholm (for which see A. Wied, Lucas und Marten van Valckenborch, 1990, p. 162, cat. no. 56, reproduced).

19 by 28.5 cm.; 7 1/2 by 11 1/4 in.