Circle of GRIMMER, Jacob Landscape with Flemish village. [Antwerp] late 16t

Circle of GRIMMER, Jacob Landscape with Flemish village. [Antwerp] late 16th or early 17th c Drawing, black chalk, 19 x 23,2 cm, laid paper without watermark, unsigned (min. foxing at lower edge). Stuck under passe-partout, under mod. wooden frame, studied outside frame. Rolling hills with a typical Flemish farmhouse. On the left foreground a large tree contributes depth and perspective to the design. The horizontal hatching and atmospheric drawing style show the hand of a confident and skilled draughtsman working at the closing decades of the sixteenth century, probably in Antwerp or Brussels. Possible artists working in a similar drawing style are Joos II De Momper (1564-1635), Jacob Grimmer (1525-1609) or Hendrik Gijsmans (1552-1612). The drawing has previously been attributed to Jan Bruegel the Younger, yet there is little stylistic argument to follow this attribution.

Artist Name: Grimmer, Jacob ; Breughel, Jan II ; Gijsmans, Hendrik ; Momper, Joos de