Flemish School, 17th Century

细节

Flemish School, 17th Century

The Landgate at Rye, Sussex

pen and brown ink, grey wash, a small section at the upper right made up
165 x 295 mm.

来源

Julienne, the verso inscribed 'A Gandell (?) juliene' Paris, 1767, lot 150, according to a note on the mount
M. Pollakovitz, Paris

拍品专文

The Landgate at Rye was built in about 1329. The present lot may be compared in subject and also handling to the celebrated group of drawings of Rye dated 1633-4 by Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), H. Vey, Die Zeichnungen Anton van Dycks, Brussels, 1962, I, nos. 288-91, II, plates 340-3. Rye was the port from which boats made the crossing to Dieppe, and van Dyck, like the draughtsman of the present lot, probably drew his views while waiting for a favourable wind. An attribution to Willem Schellinks (1627-1678), who is known to have travelled through England, France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, has been suggested.