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MATTHYS COCK (CIRCLE OF) (Antwerp circa 1505-1548 Antwerp) A Panoramic Landscape with a Bay in the Distance.
Pen and brown ink and blue wash on cream laid paper. 181x264 mm; 7 1/4x10 1/2 inches. Gothic letter P watermark (similar to Briquet 8760).
Provenance: Frederick Rolin, New York; private collection, New York.
Exhibited: "Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection," Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, February 1-March, 31, 1985, number 97; "Die Sammlung Ian Woodner," Albertine, Vienna, January 26-March 2, 1986, number 67; "Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner," Haus der Kunst, Munich, March 25-May 25, 1986, number 67.
Cock was born into a family of artists: his father was the Leyden-born painter Jan Wellens de Cock (1490–1527), and his younger brother Hieronymus Cock (1510–1570) became an important and prolific printer and publisher in Antwerp. It has been suggested, without definitive proof, that Cock may have visited Italy. He took on as pupils the artists Willem van Santvoort, Jacob Grimmer and Jan Keynooghe. Only a few, if any, paintings by Cock are documented. He is known chiefly for his drawings of landscapes, among the first of their kind done by northern artists. Hieronymus Cock published a series of 14 landscape engravings after drawings by Matthys in 1558 under the title Landscapes with Biblical and Mythological Scenes. The early biographer Karel van Mander noted in his Schilderboeck of 1604 that Cock was the first to bring the Italian manner of landscape painting to northern Europe. His landscapes show that he was aware of the work of Titian (circa 1485-1576) and the Venetian draughtsman Domenico Campagnola (1500-1564).
