Lot 150: JACOB ESSELENS AMSTERDAM 1626 - 1687

A VIEW OF A FOREST WITH A PATH NEXT TO A STREAM

measurements note
433 by 561 mm

Inscribed in brown pen with a Goll van Frankenstein inventory number, verso: N^. 1980

black chalk, grey wash and white heightening, within brown ink framing lines on blue paper

PROVENANCE

Johann Goll van Frankenstein, Amsterdam (L.2987);
Paul Davidsohn, Berlin (L.654);
Carl Robert Rudolf, London

NOTE

The attribution of wooded landscapes such as this is often much debated, with the distinction between the works of Anthonie Waterloo and Simon de Vlieger often proving particularly contentious. A few drawings of this type seem, however, to have a subtly different character, with a somewhat tighter definition of the treetrunks in particular, and these are generally given to Jacob Esselens. An example, which is very similar in style to the present sheet, is in the Lugt Collection (see Dessins de Paysagistes Hollandais du XVIIe Siècle, exh. cat., Brussels/Rotterdam/Paris/Berne 1968-9, cat. no. 50, reproduced).