5092 - 5387 FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
- Nibbled by silverfish.
WITH: correspondence with the Van Gogh Museum concerning the provenance/ authenticity of both works and several newspaper clippings on (lost) works by Van Gogh. - ADDED: ANONYMOUS (early 20th century), (Canal view) (drawing, ink and black chalk on (sl. browned/ creased) paper, 37,5x24,5 cm.).
- Yellowed and some sl. foxing; sm. tear on 1 framing line due to ink corrosion.
= Verso with various ms. annotations in brown and black ink and 2 tiny sketches. I.a. reading "een paartje aan de theems bij avond met lichten", "de 4 kollommen church", "kerkhof", "Westminster het uitgaan". Possibly by KO COSSAAR (1874-1966).
Anonymous (1st half 20th cent.). (Person standing in a doorway at the top of a staircase). Small ORIGINAL DRAWING, pen and ink, 4,8x3,3 cm., w. annot. in outer lower blank margin "Zuster Knutsenburg/ Congres[?] straat 107".
= On verso of a printed invitation card (11x15 cm.) for an exhibition of members of the Hollandsche Teeken-Maatschappij at Pulchri Studio, The Hague, September 1921 (soiled/ yellowed and sl. worn/ bumped along in upper margin, not affecting the drawing on verso). Possibly by the same artist as the above.
- With folds.
AND 6 other (sm.) architectural drawings, late 18th-19th cent.
- Heavily foxed.
= The drawing bears great similarities to drawings in a collection of 19 drawings attributed to Balthasar van der Ast by S. Segal in 1994. That collection was sold in The Hague by art dealer S. Nijstad. The RKD states this collection was formerly part of a large collection of 483 drawings of flowers. They were numbered in lower left and often monogrammed by Van der Ast in lower right. The collection sold by Nijstad however occas. lacks these characteristics. The lower left number is often covered by a piece of paper. Our drawings appear to be uncut at the left margin. Before Segals attribution to Balthasar van der Ast, the collection of drawings was believed to be created by Bartholomeus Assteijn (1607-1667), an apprentice of Van der Ast. On 17th century paper with coat of arms of Amsterdam watermark with initials "VG" below, which Laurentius dates as 2nd half 17th century. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIII.
- Heavily foxed.
= The drawing bears great similarities to drawings in a collection of 19 drawings attributed to Balthasar van der Ast by S. Segal in 1994. That collection was sold in The Hague by art dealer S. Nijstad. The RKD states this collection was formerly part of a large collection of 483 drawings of flowers. They were numbered in lower left and often monogrammed by Van der Ast in lower right. The collection sold by Nijstad however occas. lacks these characteristics. The lower left number is often covered by a piece of paper. Our drawings appear to be uncut at the left margin. Before Segals attribution to Balthasar van der Ast, the collection of drawings was believed to be created by Bartholomeus Assteijn (1607-1667), an apprentice of Van der Ast. On 17th century paper with coat of arms of Amsterdam watermark with initials "VG" below, which Laurentius dates as 2nd half 17th century. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIV.
= Title in later pen on mount. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- Sl. yellowed; tipped onto mount.
= With collector's mark in lower right corner (possibly Lugt 2799a, Hans van Leeuwen).
= With the collector's numbering by Jacob Helmont (1747-1808) on verso. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LV.
- A few thin spots in left margin. Otherwise fine. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.
- Upper left corner trifle dam. from detaching drawing from mount; trifle foxed.
- Mounted under passepartout; foxed and browned; waterstained.
= There is a very similar copy with almost the same dimensions in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, cf. Bolten 755a.
- Tipped onto mount. = According to annotation on passepartout from the collection of I. van Harewijn.
Anonymous (19th cent.). (Dutch landscape with several windmills). Drawing, pencil, brush, ink and watercolour, 18x37 cm.
- Sl. soiled and sunned; a few rubbed spots; laid down on later grey paper.
Anonymous (early 19th cent.). (A large farm with people in front). Drawing, pencil, grey and red wash, heightened w. white, 17x20,7 cm.
- Browned.
AND 9 other drawings, all Dutch landscapes, 18th-early 20th cent., i.a. a sketch of a festive arch.
- Heavy craquelure to the surface (mainly) in the upper part.
= With pencil annots. by the artist in upper blank margin: "rue de l'orangerie 99 Mme Jareau" and remarks on the bull: "Devonne [= Devon breed] (...) robe baie[?] (...) coron[?] blanche au bout noire". Tipped under passepartout w. mounted exhib. ticket of the Singer Memorial Foundation Laren and inlay waxseal "Vente Rosa Bonheur 1900" from verso of the orig frame. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LVI.
- Vaguely dustsoiled/ foxed.
= Tipped under passepartout w. mounted exhib. ticket of the Singer Memorial Foundation Laren.