Fine Arts · Los 5061
Anonymous (16th cent.). (Landscape with a boy lying under a tree with a skull and a couple sitting with their back turned to Death and his scythe).
Drawing, pen and ink, lead pencil underdrawing, 26,5x20 cm. - ON VERSO: Idem. The Good Samaritan treating the wounded man, above them a man with glasses is standing on a tree branch, holding a mirror and a burning candle). Drawing, pen and ink, lead pencil underdrawing, 23,7x18,5 cm.
- Los
- 5061
- Auktion
- Auction 84, 19-22 May 2026
- Schätzpreis
- 800 € – 1.000 €
- Zuschlag
- 7.500 €
- Fotos
- 2 Fotos
Zustand
Duststained; paper remnants along one edge.
Anmerkungen
On laid paper with (part of) an unidentified watermark (perhaps "Gothic P") in one of the corners. The style slightly reminds us of some of the drawings by Paulus van Vianen. Curious drawings: the first one has clearly a vanitas or memento mori theme; the boy with hourglass touching a skull with his finger can also be found in a print after Crispijn van de Passe and a young boy beneath a tree with a skull and hourglass can be found on an engraving by Paulus van Wtewael. Both have a connection with Utrecht, so perhaps an artist from that city. The other drawing combines the famous parable with a Till Owlglass theme. Probably alludes to the blindness/ ignorance of people towards others. The second drawing also shows a fox and three men conversing, one reading a book and standing on a sword (the Levite?), another man with a stick in his eyes and standing on a key (the Priest?) and the third man unpacking a box of books. Provenance: an unidentified circular collector's mark; the collection of C.P. van Eeghen (1880-1968) with his mark (Lugt 6016) and by descent from the latter to the present owners. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVI.