Lot 150: VALENTIJN KLOTZ

VALENTIJN KLOTZ MAASTRICHT CIRCA 1650 - CIRCA 1716 VIEW OF A WATERMILL NEAR MAASTRICHT Pen and black and brown ink and grey wash, on two joined sheets of paper; dated and inscribed in brown ink, upper left: Anno 1670 geteekent bij Maestricht / aen de Moelens buijten de tongerscheport 156 by 357 mm

O. Huldchinsky, Berlin,
his sale, Berlin, Graupe, 3 November 1931, lot 55

This landscape, clearly drawn from life, is a particularly freely executed and atmospheric example of Klotz's accomplished draughtsmanship. A very similarly executed and inscribed view of nearby Lichtenberg, also dated 1670, was sold, in London, Sotheby's, 15 March 1966, lot 89.