6099 - 6280
FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
(incl. drawings of Haarlem and surroundings from the collection A.M. van den Broek)
= Perhaps after Michiel Versteegh, who also drew this composition and was his contemporary in Dordrecht. Both artists were specialized in candle light scenes, after i.a. Gerrit Dou.
- Slightly foxed.
- A few unobtrusive small old tears in lower margin.
AND a handcol. lithogr. by PH. BENOIST, "Le Capitole avec l'Escalier et l'Eglise de l'Ara Coeli" (28,2x36 cm. (incl. captions), ±1870, framed).
= Drawing from a mirrored perspective. With an attribution to Pierre Louis DUBOURCQ on verso.
AND 6 smaller drawings (mainly 19th cent.) of views in Haarlem and its surroundings.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, each with his collector's mark on verso.
- Loosening. Covers foxed.
= Various sketches and drawings, incl. a few amusing caricatures. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
- A few creases, mostly in upper part/ margin; sl. dustsoiled in upper margin.
= View of New Longwood House, St. Helena that was built for Napoléon, but never occupied by him. Perhaps made by a Dutch naval officer.
- A brown stain on the right arm and a few scattered spots.
= With the collector's mark of "Sammlung Leyendecker".
AND a pencil drawing of a female nude by Bernard Pierre BERTALOTTI.
- Tipped onto paper mount; trifle creased along outer blank margins.
= After an engraving by Jan Luyken (±1680). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVIII.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIX.
= With the collector's stamp of A.M. van den Broek on verso.
= Rare. Cat. Harlemia Illustrata p.47 (without number): "Om de overige vier bij de serie aan te laten sluiten werden deze geheel door Pannebakker getekend, maar voorzien van een kunstmatig aangebrachte plaat "moet" (...) Dit zijn vier tekeningen die moesten lijken op de acht prenten [by NIEUWHOFF and PANNEBAKKER]". Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
AND 4 engravings/ aquatints by the same from the same series (Cat. Harlemia Illustrata 810 (2x), 812 and 813).
= Rare. Cat. Harlemia Illustrata p.47 (without numbers): "Om de overige vier bij de serie aan te laten sluiten werden deze geheel door Pannebakker getekend, maar voorzien van een kunstmatig aangebrachte plaat "moet" (...) Dit zijn vier tekeningen die moesten lijken op de acht prenten [by NIEUWHOFF and PANNEBAKKER]". Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
= From an album amicorum (of Verschuer).
- Tipped onto mount along top margin.
(Dillen, Georg van (act. 1800-1830)). (Two travellers walking along a stream in a wooded landscape). Drawing, pen and ink, 18x24,8 cm. Bendorp, Johann (1767-1849). (An angler and a passer by near a bridge and farm). Drawing, brush and grey wash, 6,7x12 cm., signed and dated "1782" in pen and ink on verso.
= On 17th/ 18th century laid paper.
= Pronk made a watercolour of the same composition, dated 1701, with some small different details (in the collection of the Rijksmuseum).
- With (foxed) extended margins; a few sm. and vague greyish spots in sky area and in lower border outside framing lines.
= The exterior of the havezathe Boxbergen has changed significantly over the years. This watercolour shows it as it had been since it was rebuilt in the years between 1650-1653, after it was destroyed by a fire. Provenance: sold as lot 120 in the catalogue "Dessins topographiques. Collection de Feu M. - Ant. W. M. Mensing." on 18 October 1937. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CX.
- Trifle yellowed; some white deposit in upper left corner.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his manuscript collector's mark on verso.