Lodewijk Toeput, Allegory of Winter. 1585-1590

English

Allegory of Winter. 1585 - 1590. Lodewijk Toeput, allso known as Ludovic Toeput, Ludovico Pozzoserrato en il Pozzoserrato ( c. 1540/1550 – between 1603 and 1605). W ese a colf player at the right side on the ice

Trained in Antwerp, Lodewijk Toeput made what had become a traditional journey to Italy but, unlike many of his compatriots, decided to settle there. Later visited by many northern European artists, he served as an important contact in the exchange of ideas and styles between the Low Countries and Italy. These two drawings, like many of his idealized landscapes, borrow motifs from both his native Netherlands and his adopted Italy. The drawings constitute half of a series depicting the four seasons. Drawings for the two other seasons have recently been identified in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Drawing and Watercolors on paper; Pen and gray-black ink and gray and blue wash over preliminary drawing in pencil. Sheet: 27.3 × 41.6 cm (10 3/4 × 16 3/8in.); Framed: 43.815 × 59.055 cm (17 1/4 × 23 1/4in.)

Provenance

• John Percival, 1st Earl of Egmont; John T. Graves; Robert Hoe; Yale Univ. Library (anonymous donor, 1957)

Bibliography

• Suzanne Boorsch and John J. Marciari, Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 27, 28, 92–95, no. 22a, ill.

Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, USA. Egmont Collection, Yale Library Transfer (1961.63.65)

Source: Do Smit

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