5698 - 5999
FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
(incl. drawings of Haarlem and surroundings from the collection A.M. van den Broek)
- Sl. yellowed; sm. closed tear in lower margin; remnants of former mount on verso.
= Remarkable trompe l'oeil showing, apart from the portrait and 2 leaves from an almanac, as a surprising extra illusion: a deceptively real fly on the central leaf. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.
- Waterstained and soiled. Sold w.a.f. = Trompe l'oeil with text leaves.
- Trifle duststained in outer margins; tape on verso used for tipping in vaguely visible on recto.
= With (small) collector's stamp "B.P." (Lugt 400C ("non identifiée")) in lower right corner recto. Attributed on verso in 19th cent. hand. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.
= Drawing after a sketch by Cornelis VAN NOORDE after Reinier VINKELES. See B. Sliggers, Het schetsboek van Cornelis van Noorde (p.94/ 95 and p.102/ 103). On laid paper with a watermark showing "VI". Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his collector's mark on verso.
- Trifle yellowed.
= This drawing published in G.H. Kurtz, Beknopte geschiedenis van Haarlem (p.56, Haarlem, 1946, 3rd. rev. ed.). Drawing and mount w. paper showing large watermark of a crowned fleur-de-lis w. "LVG" or "WR." Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his collector's mark on verso. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
- Sm. (paint?) smudge in blank part.
= Identification of the view (by the artist?) on verso. Showing the Temple of Minerva (?) in the foreground and the skyline of Rome in the far distance.
- Some sl. foxing.
- A few sm. repaired tears in upper blank margin; sm. ink smudge in upper margin; vague brown stain in right part, num. sm. brown specks in margins and on verso.
- Some (vague) foxing.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
- Signature sl. faded (due to ink?); numb. "630" in contemp. hand on verso. = A fine river view.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CI.
= M.W. Heijenga-Klomp, Nicolaas Wicart. Landschapstekenaar en porseleinschilder (2003), p.26. Verso w. printed owner's ticket of A.J. v.d. Poest Clement, Amsterdam, w. ms. annot. "Uit Auctie Frederik Muller & Co, te Amsterdam, 29 Nov: 1893. Catalogus No.863" and w. the orig. catalogue cllipping tipped on.
- Sl. yellowed.
= M.W. Heijenga-Klomp, Nicolaas Wicart. Landschapstekenaar en porseleinschilder (2003), p.105.
- Yellowed; restored/ closed tears in lower right corner.
= Provenance: the collection of A.M. van den Broek with his collector's mark on verso.