Landscape with a River and Anglers in the Foreground

Jacob Koninck

Summary

A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Jacob Koninck. The drawing is of a landscape with a river running through it. The water is calm, and a boat with two anglers can be seen in the bottom right-hand corner, near some reeds. Further along the river, to the left of the drawing, is another boat with four people on it. There is a tree to the left in the foreground, and many trees are in the background. A number of buildings can be seen in the distance, including what appear to be church spires. Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society: "No. 20 JACOB KONINCK (b. about 1616; d. about 1708) LANDSCAPE WITH A RIVER AND ANGLERS IN THE FOREGROUND British Museum, 1912-12-14-17. From the Heseltine Collection. Pen and sepia, and sepia wash. 22.7 x 37 cm. (8 15/16 x 14 9/16 in.). View of a broad expanse of slightly undulating an wooded country, taken from the banks of a river, which crosses the foreground. A village with a church spire seen amid trees beyond the river, two gabled buildings further left, and a windmill on the horizon. A road leads down to the river on the left where a ferry-boat is landing; two anglers fishing in a boat on the right. On the back is written in a seventeenth or early eighteenth century hand in red chalk: I Cooning f 2-10. The inscription is almost certainly contemporary (though more probably written by a dealer than the draughtsman, as a price two florins ten stuyvers is given) and is strong documentary evidence in favour of the attribution. One of the few other landscape drawing which can be attributed with certainty to the same master is a View of Ransdorp in the British Museum, a study in reverse for a signed etching of 1663 (Bartsch, Rembrandt, No. 238, and Seconde Partie, p. 132, No. 73; Hind, Rembrandt's Etchings, †329). A. M. H."