6292 - 6524 FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
- Mediocre condition. Browned and sl. foxed; doubled and repaired; old middle-fold; some old closed tears (?) and corners sl. dam.
= Perhaps after an unknown painting by Berchem. He has depicted the tower at least in one of his harbour paintings.
- With later added margins.
= On slightly thick laid paper. It appears that manuscript captions above the heads were erased. After a classical frieze in the Villa Medici.
= WIth an unidentified collector's mark "HdJ" (not in Lugt).
AND 2 other 19th cent. drawings, i.a. a seated woman attributed to Johan Adolph RUST.
- Laid down on board; a few worn spots (nibbled by silverfish).
= Splendid drawing. In June 2014 a painting with this composition was sold an Im Kinsky, Vienna (lot 0499) (circle of Jan Both). The composition is partly depicted in reverse in the etching by Jan Both (Hollstein 4). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.
- Sl. foxed and soiled; blue stain near lower edge.
= A very similar drawing in style, manner and composition in the British Museum (inv. 5236.65), certainly by the same artist. That drawing (attributed by the British Museum to Paul Bril) is a preliminary study for this one. A print by Guillam van Nieulandt II after Paul Bril shows the same composition but mirrored and with large figures in the foreground (Hollstein 111). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIX.
= One drawing shows a couple dancing while others watch or converse. The other drawing shows a group of men seated at a table, watching another man grope a prostitute(?) under her skirts.
- Unevenly browned w. offsetting from former passepartout.
AND 2 others: a similar drawing by the same: a small house standing next to a stream and a watercolour by monogrammist "c.j.h.v.h.", a landscape with cows lying in a meadow.
= Perhaps by Pierre Drapeyron de David, who accompanied the campagins of general Pichegru in the Netherlands.
- Professionally restored horizontal crack in panel. Needs cleaning (varnish yellowed).
= Anthonie Delorme, Rotterdam painter who is known to have used the Laurens church as the main inspiration for his church interiors. Provenance: purchased by the present owner in 2012 at an auction in Hannover. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.






































