- Drawing trimmed to the framing line; vertical fold; trifle yellowed.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his annotation in pen on verso.
- Unevenly yellowed/ sl. browned. = Not in Romers.
- Ample margins; trifle yellowed.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his collector's mark on verso. According to Van den Broek it was Cornelis Pronk who was responsible for the the staffage of the drawing, apparently he drew himself on the right. Not many drawings by Bierens traced. The library of Universiteit Leiden holds a drawing of Castle Drakenburg in Laage Vuursche (PK-T-2946).
- A few sm. brown stains in sky area.
= Title supplied on ticket on verso frame (with concise biographical data of the artist).
- Mounts sl. soiled.
= With the artist atelier's stamp, with the address in the rue Mommaert (Mommaertstraat) in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium. According to an annotation on one of the mounts, the windows were executed for a church in Mazy (Namur).
- All sl. soiled/ foxed.
= I.a. a drawing with heads of characters from an unidentified work by Boileau, "Le directeur de femmes malades. de zieke vrouwenherder".
Idem. (Woman and her child buying flowers at a stall). Watercolour, 17,2x20,8 cm., signed "D.J. Bles f." in pen and brown ink.
- Lower corners dam.; sl. (dust)soiled. = Tipped together on the same mount.
- Small scratch in the sky to the left. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
- Some craquelé, especially in the centre; dam. spot in centre of upper margin. Needs cleaning. Frame sl. dam.
- Laid down on modern paper mount; closed tears in lower right corner touching the image; sm. closed tears around margins.
= Likely a preparatory sketch for one of his paintings of the Church. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, w. his collector's stamp on verso.
- Ample margins; trifle yellowed.
= Showing two separate drawings within the same frame, portraying a nice summer and winter view. According to Van den Broek the draughtsman could also be Jacob de Bosch (18th cent.). Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his collector's mark on verso.
= Skillful drawing after Bouchardon's Etudes prises dans le bas Peuple, ou les Cris de Paris (Paris, 1737-1746).
- Soiled and somewhat browned; laid down on mount, w. a closed tear near centre of lower edge (and possibly two smaller ones in upper part) and two small holes in upper left section.
= Provenance: bought by the present owner in 1989 at Christie's Amsterdam. From the collection of the art dealer Charles E. Duits (1882-1969) with his collector's mark on recto (Lugt 533a). On verso of mount a dedication in pencil by the collector sir Robert Cleremont Witt (1872-1952) to the London art dealer J.H.J. Mellaert (act. 1926-1929), dated 1919. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
= Provenance: the collection of A.M. van den Broek, both w. his collector's stamp on verso.
= Attrib. to Jan van de Capellen in pencil in 19th cent. hand on verso. Provenance: Sir Bruce Ingram (Lugt 1956); Berliner Kupferkabinett; the "Nachlass Galerie Kurt Meissner, Zürich". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVII.
- Various restorations, mostly along edges; portion of right part painted over w. lighter grey.
= Grisaille painting for an unidentified home, the original shape of the frame still visible along the upper edge. In 2017 a very similar painting with a very similar subject was auctioned in The Hague, dated with the same year. Very probably from the same home. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVII.
= Possibly Hendrik II Carree (1696-1775).
Anonymous (18th/ 19th cent.). (Full-length portrait of a man holding an axe). Drawing, pencil, 27x21 cm. - AND 4 other (academical) figure studies, 19th/ eary 20th cent.
- Trifle yellowed. A few chipped spots on frame. = A fine view.