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Scuola tedesca (Francoforte?), metà del secolo XVIII
Landscape with people along a river, architecture and sailing ships
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€ 1.000 - 1.500
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€ 1.290
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gouache on paper
mm 167 x 225
on the reverse ancient inscription Le Chevalier van de Werve / d'Anverse a fach ech tablau and, bottom left, date 1718
mm 167 x 225
on the reverse ancient inscription Le Chevalier van de Werve / d'Anverse a fach ech tablau and, bottom left, date 1718
Thanks to Professor Fred Meijer for his assistance in cataloging the lot.
The refined gouache offered in the lot features on the verso a reference to Chevalier van der Werff, an expression often used to indicate the Dutch painter Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722). The indication is certainly suggestive but the work does not seem stylistically attributable to the hand of this artist. Significant, however, is the comparison with the gouache that appeared on the English market in 2022 (Sotheby's London, 6 July 2022, lot 123) with the attribution to Henri Desiré van Blarenberghe, a work that, for quality, style and composition, is very probably to be attributed to the same unknown author as ours. The Sotheby's sheet bore on the verso the inscription Ditch fecit Nurmberg and another, later one, Francis Paul Ferg / 1689-1738; the first probably refers to an artist from the Dietzsch family of Nuremberg, the second to the Austrian landscape painter Franz de Paula Ferg (1689-1740). The reference to Ferg would not seem pertinent, while some similarities with the production of Johann Christoph Dietzsch (1710-1768) are visible, even if not so stringent as to allow us to propose an attribution to this master. In any case, both inscriptions rightly suggest that we are dealing with a German artist of the 18th century. In particular, it can be assumed that the author of our gouache was active in Frankfurt am Main since the strongest stylistic relationship is found with the pictorial corpus of three painters active in this city: Christian Georg Schütz I (1718-1791), his son Christian Georg Schütz II (1758-1823) and his brother-in-law Franz Hochecker (1730-1782), whose works are often confused.
The refined gouache offered in the lot features on the verso a reference to Chevalier van der Werff, an expression often used to indicate the Dutch painter Adriaen van der Werff (1659-1722). The indication is certainly suggestive but the work does not seem stylistically attributable to the hand of this artist. Significant, however, is the comparison with the gouache that appeared on the English market in 2022 (Sotheby's London, 6 July 2022, lot 123) with the attribution to Henri Desiré van Blarenberghe, a work that, for quality, style and composition, is very probably to be attributed to the same unknown author as ours. The Sotheby's sheet bore on the verso the inscription Ditch fecit Nurmberg and another, later one, Francis Paul Ferg / 1689-1738; the first probably refers to an artist from the Dietzsch family of Nuremberg, the second to the Austrian landscape painter Franz de Paula Ferg (1689-1740). The reference to Ferg would not seem pertinent, while some similarities with the production of Johann Christoph Dietzsch (1710-1768) are visible, even if not so stringent as to allow us to propose an attribution to this master. In any case, both inscriptions rightly suggest that we are dealing with a German artist of the 18th century. In particular, it can be assumed that the author of our gouache was active in Frankfurt am Main since the strongest stylistic relationship is found with the pictorial corpus of three painters active in this city: Christian Georg Schütz I (1718-1791), his son Christian Georg Schütz II (1758-1823) and his brother-in-law Franz Hochecker (1730-1782), whose works are often confused.
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