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Wouter Knijff - Panoramic View from Elterberg over the Rhine Valley near Emmerich

Auction 1254 - overview Cologne
16.11.2024, 11:00 - Old Masters & 19th Century, Part I
Estimate: 10.000 € - 14.000 €
Bid

Wouter Knijff

Panoramic View from Elterberg over the Rhine Valley near Emmerich

Oil on copper. 21 x 26.5 cm.
Monogrammed and dated lower centre: WK 1639.

H.-U. Beck considers Knijff's "Fortification on the Banks of a River with Motifs from Utrecht", dated to the same year, to be the pendant to the present work (Beck, 1991, p. 236, no. 623)

Provenance

Auctioned by Habsburg, Feldmann, New York, 30 May 1990, no. 18. – P. de Boer, Amsterdam and R. Schreuder, Aerdenhout. – Continental private collection.

Literature

Hans-Ulrich Beck, Künstler um Jan van Goyen, vol. IV, Doornspijk, 1991, p. 236, no. 623a with ill.