FJK 128
Van Der Ulft Jacob (Dutch, Gorkum 1627–1689 Noordwijk)
Landscape with Shepherds
Date unknown
Sheet: 5 15/16 × 5 25/32 in. (151 × 147 mm) / Drawing D: 4 59/64 in. (125 mm)
Medium
Pen, brown ink and brown ink wash heightened with ocher gouache on paper
Signed in brown ink bottom right: Jac: vander Ulft Ft
Origin
Colnaghi Drawings, London
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco (acquired from previous owner on December 7, 1999), JK 5734
Jan Krugier Foundation
Notes
Certainly, van der Ulft was profoundly influenced by the work of another amateur artist, Jan de Bisschop, whose drawings approach his own in both style and handling. An album of 43 landscape drawings by both Jacob van der Ulft and Jan de Bisschop, mostly views in or around Rome, is in the collection of the Dukes of Devonshire at Chatsworth. Another album of Roman views by van der Ulft is in the Institut Néerlandais (Fondation Custodia) in Paris.
The present sheet belongs with a small and distinctive group of circular landscape drawings by van der Ulft, all of approximately the same dimensions. These include a pair of drawings in the Saint Louis Art Museum (1) and other examples in the Britisch Museum, the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, MA.
Anonymous author (translated from French)
1. Georges Keyes, “Lanscape in Perspective: Drawings by Rembrandt and his Contemporaries” [review], Master Drawings, Summer 1989, p. 164, figs. 1 and 2)
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