Lot 528: s - Isaac de Moucheron Amsterdam 1667 - 1744 , italianate landscape with two figures on an elaborate terrace pen and brown ink, watercolour and gouache

signed and dated, lower left: Moucheron. Fecit. 1736 pen and brown ink, watercolour and gouache

241 by 331 mm.

Rotterdam, Kunsthal, European Master Drawings Unveiled, 2002, cat. no. 64

Nina Wedde, Isaac de Moucheron (1667 - 1744), 2 vols., Frankfurt am Main 1996, vol.I, p. 410, cat. no. W156, reproduced vol. II

Possibly D. Muilman, his sale, Amsterdam, J. de Bosch/Yver, 29 March 1773, Kunstboek D, no. 240, acquired by C. Ploos van Amstel (not identifiable in his 1800 sale, which included numerous Moucheron hofgezichten);
M. Strauss, Vienna;
sale, Vienna, Wawra, 22-3 March 1926, lot 195;
Stephen Cann,
by whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 23 March 1971, lot 100;
with Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam, 1972 (Winter exhibition, no.14);
sale, London, Christie's ("The Property of a Gentleman"), 3 July 1990, lot 95

The majority of Moucheron's more formal and elaborate compositions date, like this example, from the last part of his career.