5793 - 6157 FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
- A few foxed spots.
- Yellowed traces of tape in outer upper corners. Drawing on verso of a woodengr. plate from an unidentified book.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXL.
Idem (in the style of). (Dragoon on horseback). Drawing, pen and ink and watercolour, 22,5x15,5 cm.
- With later (clumsily) added monogram "WS" in lower right margin.
ADDED: a similar drawing by monogrammist "J.A.S." (A cavalry man on horseback) (watercolour, 26,5x17,5 cm.).
- Laid down on mount; sl. (unevenly) yellowed.
Idem. (Portrait of a man). Drawing, pen and black ink, 14x11 cm., w. monogram stamp in lower right corner and w. his purple atelier stamp on verso (Lugt 2341b). - AND 2 other pencil and black ink studies, possibly by the same.
- Some small tears/ defects in margins (upper margin worse); sl. yellowed/ partly foxed (verso worse); upper right corner w. fold.
= Published in Gil Blas, 20 October 1895, Year 5, No.42. From the former collection of Willy Sluiter w. his annot. in blue pencil on verso: "Willy Sluiter van Eduard (...) Koster Den Haag, 23 April 1912".
- Sl. foxed in left margin. = Attribution in old hand on mount.
= A very similar drawing was made by L.P. Serrurier (1706-1751).
- A few foxed spots; brownish stain in centre.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLI.
- Sl. yellowed; edges worn. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLI.
- Two horizontal/ one vertical folds; partly browned; cut short.
= With 2 collector's marks near lower edge: one potentially "HWC" (collection H.W. Campen; not in Lugt) and one "IS" (cf. Lugt 1530: potentially by John Spencer). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLII.
- Upper margin laid down on mount; verso w. traces of former mounting in left margin (sl. shining through).
= Bridsaard was a small village in Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, and now part of Wommels.
- Foxed.
= Tipped onto mount with annotation "(...) Elise Thomsen". Elise was the daughter of the artist, so perhaps from her collection. With manuscript caption "Huusmandens Børn".
- Browned and soiled; chafed spots; closed tear near upper border.
= Mostly religious texts but also some alphabets.
- Trifle dustsoiled in margins; otherwise fine.
= Fine and skilful trompe l'oeil, simulating i.a. drawings or engravings of interior views and Dutch village views and a portrait of "Mr. Wagenmaker".
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXLII.