Lot 608: VALENTIJN KLOTZ

VALENTIJN KLOTZ MAASTRICHT CIRCA 1650 - CIRCA 1716 VIEW OF ERRESS Pen and gray ink and wash; bears numbering in brown ink, lower right: 9 140 by 190 mm; 5 1/2 by 7 1/2 in

With Henry Graves & Co., London (L.2990);
sale, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 9-10 May 1930, lot 513 (as Esaias van de Velde);
with Galerie Claude Aubry, Paris, Dessins des Ecoles du Nord, 1974, no. 38 (as Flemish School, 17th century, with a note that an attribution had been proposed to Jan Jansz. den Uyl)

Klotz was a very accomplished landscape draughtsman with a distinctive, charming style, whose works do not perhaps enjoy the reputation that they should. In particular, his more freely executed landscape sketches, such as this example or the recently sold View of a Watermill near Maastricht,υ1are of excellent quality.

1. Sold London, Sotheby's, 6 July 2010, lot 150