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Prints and a Few Drawings from Great Collections of the Past
  1. Master MR, Christ on the Cross
  2. Dürer, St. Bartholomew
  3. Dürer, Christ Before Caiaphas
  4. Raimondi, Philosophy
  5. Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids
  6. Beham, Job Conversing
  7. Beham, Satyr Sounding a Horn
  8. Beham, Peasant Couple Walking
  9. Caraglio, Martyrdom of St. Paul
  10. Aldegrever, Standard Bearer
  11. Pencz, Feeding the Hungry
  12. Pencz, Artemisia Preparing
  13. Falconetto, Tomb Surmounted
  14. Claesz, St. Peter Seated
  15. Treu, Noble Dancers
  16. Master FP, Hercules Killing
  17. Brun, February
  18. Solis, Arithmetria
  19. de Bruyn, The Circumcision
  20. Sadeler, Virgin and Child
  21. Goltzius, A Young Man
  22. Matham, The Planets
  23. Brizio, Extensive Landscape
  24. van de Velde, Fête Villageoise
  25. van de Velde, Backgammon
  26. van Uyttenbroek, Tobias
  27. van Uyttenbroek, Bacchus
  28. Rembrandt, The Small Lion Hunt
  29. Hollar, Woman with Headdress
  30. Saftleven, Dutch Peasant
  31. Ostade, Bust of a Peasant
  32. Stoop, A Grazing Horse
  33. Fyt, Set of Animals
  34. Bega, The Three Drinkers
  35. Anonymous, Landscape
  36. Nanteuil, Charles Benoise
  37. Nanteuil, Cardinal Mazarin
  38. Nanteuil, Pierre Seguier
  39. van Vliet, St. Jerome Sitting
  40. Cossin, Ornament Design
  41. Sirani, St. Eustace
  42. Somer, Hagar and Ishmael
  43. Daullé, La Muse Clio
  44. Tiepolo, The Holy Family
  45. MacArdell, Hannah, Mrs. Horneck
  46. Laurie, Elizabeth, Dutchess
  47. Denon, Village Scene
  48. Charlet, Les Français
  49. Pieraccini, Holy Family
  50. Daumier, Y n’y a rien comm’
  51. Daubigny, Les Ruines du Chateau
  52. Daubigny, Lever de Lune
  53. Meryon, Le Petit Pont
  54. Rops, La Poupée du Satyre
  55. Whistler, Old Hungerford Bridge
  56. Legros, Un Coin de Rivière
  57. Buhot, Frontispice
  58. Forain, La Rencontre
  59. Pennell, Hampton Court Palace
  60. Delâtre, Silhouette de Femme

35. Anonymous Flemish
(17th Century)
Landscape with a Blasted Tree

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Anonymous, Landscape

Landscape with a Blasted Tree

Other Images:

Original drawing in black chalk on vellum, 205 x 355 mm. Highly accomplished drawing with distinctive delineation of foliage and grass, but difficult to give to a specific artist. The name of Lucas Achtschellink (1626-1699) has been suggested, but there are few known drawings by him, although his painting style shows no conflict with this drawing. Certain elements of the drawing, though, seem comparable to a drawing in the British Museum by the Dutch-English artist Jan Griffier I (1645-1718) and the fact that Griffier was in England for many years would theoretically make it likely that Sandby could have obtained a drawing by him. But overall, the drawing looks Flemish in style. There is some slight rubbing but the vellum, apart from the expected slight waving and wrinkling, has been well preserved without being laid down.

Provenance:
Paul Sandby (Lugt 2112). Sandby (1725-1809), originally a map-maker for the military, rose to be a famous artist, lauded as “the father of watercolor art,” and, as the virtual inventor of topographical art there and a knowledgeable connoisseur of the arts, sciences and literature, an important figure in 18th-century Britain. He, together with his brother Thomas, was among the founding members of the Royal Academy. His personal collection, including his own works and those of his brother as well as of other British, Dutch and Flemish artists, must have been vast, most of it being sold at various times after his death in a series of six or seven auctions.

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