Adam Frans van der Meulen, copy after - Louis XIV's Troops Besieging Büderich near Wesel - image-1

Lot 1140 Dα

Adam Frans van der Meulen, copy after - Louis XIV's Troops Besieging Büderich near Wesel

Auction 1141 - overview Cologne
16.11.2019, 11:00 - Paintings and Drawings 15th - 19th C.
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.500 €
Result: 1.736 € (incl. premium)
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Adam Frans van der Meulen, copy after

Louis XIV's Troops Besieging Büderich near Wesel

Gouache on paper. 25.5 x 36 cm.
In a carved frame of the period.

The Franco-Netherlandish War was originally fought between France and the United Provinces, but it soon expanded across the whole of central Europe. Louis XIV crossed the Rhine at Lobith on 12th June 1672, an event which Frans Adam van der Meulen captured in a large-format painting. The siege of Büderich took place in the same year. Although this drawing follows a compositional scheme devised by this great Franco-Belgian military artist, who painted a series of scenes from this war, it was carried out by a talented artist from his circle.