Lot 1: JACOB VAN DER ULFT GORINCHEM 1627 - 1689 NOORDWIJK

CAPRICCIO OF A CLASSICAL HARBOUR

measurements note
diameter: 119mm

pen and brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk; circular

NOTE

Two comparable roundels by van der Ulft of classical harbour scenes are in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem (inv. nos. Q. 80 and Q. 82). As with this example, many of van der Ulft's landscapes are Italianate, whether real views or capricci. Interestingly, it seems that the artist never in fact visited Italy, but based many of his drawings on those of Jan de Bisschop, the contents of whose studio van der Ulft had access to after De Bisschop's death in 1671. Nevertheless, the atmospheric nature of this drawing is highly resonant of classical Italy.