Lot 670: ISAAC DE MOUCHERON

ISAAC DE MOUCHERON AMSTERDAM 1667 - 1744 RUGGED RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH A NYMPH SURPRISED BY A SATYR Depicting Sylvan landscape with satyr and nude Gouache on vellum, within red, gold and black framing lines 7 x 10 inches 185 by 260 mm; 7 1/4 by 10 1/4 in

Willem Gruyter Jr. (L.2622, verso);
Adalbert, Freiherr von Lanna (L.2773)

A pencil note on the reverse indicates that this gouache records a composition by Gaspard Dughet. Although the handling is perfectly characteristic of Moucheron, the composition is not, so this note may well be justified, particularly as Moucheron made a series of ten prints after Dughet.υ1 This composition does not, however, correspond with any of these prints, or with any known painting by Dughet, so the theory, though plausible, remains unproven.

Numerous watercolors by Moucheron survive, but hardly any gouaches by him are known. The present work is, however, totally comparable in handling with two signed gouaches, formerly in the Van Pallandt collection.υ2

1. M.-N. Boisclair, Gaspard Dughet, Paris 1986, p. 360, cats. G.123-132, figs. 623-8
2. Sold, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 15 November 1994, lots 5-6