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)
- 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.
= The artist was asked, together with 26 other renowned European artists, to create the design of one of the 100 plates for one of the most ambitious publications of the Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, the Juliana-bible of 1900, i.a. with designs by Walter Crane, Lawrence Alma Tadema, Edward Burne-Jones, Benjamin Constant, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, James Tissot, Arthur Kampf, Max Liebermann, Sascha Schneider and Fritz von Uhde, Jozef Israëls, Ilja Repin, José Villegas Cordero and Juliaan De Vriendt. On this project and publication, cf. Anne van BUUL, Een eerbiedwaardig reuzenwerk De Geïllustreerde Bijbel (1900) (De Moderne Tijd, 2017, no.2, p.160-179). The engraving used in the Juliana bible was made after this painting.
- Sl. duststained and w. a few tiny holes (from acid biting?).
= Annotation (signature?) on verso "Placido Costanzi" in pen and ink. On thick 18th century laid paper, no watermark visible. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
= On laid paper with a part of a large crowned watermark. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his collector's mark on verso.
= On laid paper with a large "Pro Patria" watermark.
AND 1 similar by the same: "Aan de Bloemendaalsche Weg op de Beek te zien" (signed).
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his manuscript collector's mark on verso.
- The outlines of the putto are perforated w. minuscule holes; ink sl. fading in areas; a few unobtrusive oblique folds.
- With "74" in contemp. manuscript in centre; sm. closed hole in left margin.
- Browned; closed tear in left part.
= With a small manuscript note with biographical records written by one of the organizers of a lottery at the Groningen art society in November 1905. This drawing was one of the prizes.
= Johannes Adrianus van der Drift, pupil of Andreas Schelfhout and one of the founders of the Haagsche Etsclub. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
- A few foxed spots. = Title supplied in pencil on verso.
- Occas. sl. yellowed; some creases. = Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Both trifle yellowed; a few tiny holes; one lacks tiny portion of left margin.
AND 7 others, all anonymous drawings, possibly by the same or by Leonard Johannes EYMER.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Two folds in left blank part.
= Fine and delicate watercolour by an unidentified artist. With a watermark of the Seven Provinces (Churchill 110); verso mount numb. "No:57 in pen and ink in a contemp. hand.