Marten Ryckaert

(1587 - Antwerp - 1631)

A Panoramic Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

Signed, lower right, on the pot: MR
Oil on panel, 20¼ x 34⅝ ins. (51.3 x 87.8 cm)
Framed: 26⅞ x 41⅛ ins. (68.4 x 104.6 cm)
VP5137 

Provenance

With Spink and Son Ltd., London, by 1945 (as Monogrammist S.V.R., circa 1590)
From whom acquired by a private collector, 1945
By whom sold anonymously (“The Property of a Family”), London, Christie’s, 10 April 1987,
lot 19 (as Ryckaert and Frans Francken II)
With Galerie De Jonckheere, Paris, by July 1987
Dr. Hinrich Bischoff (1936-2005), by 1992, and thence by inheritance
Private collection, Germany, until 2025
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 5 February 2026, lot 31. 


Literature

C. Stukenbrock, in Von Bruegel bis Rubens, das goldene Jahrhundert der flämischen Malerei, exhibition catalogue, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1992, pp. 299-300, cat. no. 26.1, reproduced
C. Stukenbrock, in Van Bruegel tot Rubens, de Antwerpse Schilderschool 1550-1650, exhibition catalogue, E. Mai (ed.),Antwerp 1992, p. 244, cat. no. 114, reproduced p. 245
J. Rees, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers, Gemälde vom XV. bis zum XVIII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, pp. 217-218, cat. no. 87, reproduced p. 219.


Exhibited

Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, on loan, from 1992 (inv. no. L 1119)
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum; Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, Antwerp & Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Von Bruegel bis Rubens. Das goldene Jahrhundert der flämischen Malerei, 4 September 1992 - 20 June 1993, no. 26.1, 114
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Heiter bis wolkig, Naturschauspiele in der niederländischen Malerei, 1 June 2017 - 5 February 2018
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, long-term loan, until 2025 (inv. no. Dep. 0840)