= With collector's mark [?] "307700 Lang.W." in pencil in lower right corner [not lin Lugt]. Verso mount w. attrib. to Camillle Corot, probably sold in 1963 at auction house Paul Brandt, Amsterdam.
AND 2 other drawings: a small landscape with travellers by monogrammist "L.F" (mixed technique) and an anonymous early 20th cent. sepia landscape with resting traveller.
- Tipped onto mount along left margin.
= View from the "Bloemendaalsche weg" with the dome of Buitenplaats de Beek showing.
= Attractive drawing.
- Foxed/ yellowed.
AND a small 19th cent. black ink landscape drawing w. monogram "A.v.E."
- Fine. = Provenance: gallery Ackermann and Johnson.
- Trifle yellowed.
= Skillful study, most likely after the almost identical engraving published in P.J. Lutgers, Gezigten in de omstreken van Haarlem (1837-1844). On wove paper with watermark "J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1842". Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his collector's mark on verso.
= Interesting view on the situation in the church before the reformation. "Al dit bovenstaande [referring to legend] is uit oude en echte stukken gecopieerd in de Maand September Ao. 1848, door H. van Zutphen, koster van de Groote Kerk". On paper w. large "Pro Patria" watermark from "De erven D. Blauw". Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, w. his collector's stamp on verso.
- Soiling, especially in lower left corner. = Unfinished sketch.
AND 2 other anonymous late 19th/ early 20th cent. drawings, i.a. a black crayon drawing of a working horse.
= On laid paper with watermark "MA".
AND a late 19th/ early 20th cent. black crayon ornamental drawing heightened w. white wash (49,7x25 cm.) and a stack of ±50 academy studies in various techniques by "VandeCappelle" (±1940-1950).
= Nice impressionist drawing.
AND 2 other drawings.
- Some foxed spots.
= Comprises sketches in the style of Breitner and Israëls of street scenes, portraits, groups of military men and cafe scenes.
AND a similar sketchbook by the same(?) w. 8 lvs. w. drawings.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, both with his manuscript collector's mark inside.
- Leaves occas. frayed/ thumbed. Bindings worn/ sl. dam.
= Comprises sketches in the style of Breitner and Israëls of city views or people.
= Incl. flowers and a few nice views of Zaandam.
- Varnish slightly yellowed; some craquelure and vague unevenness below the cigarette.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
- Chafed spot to surface near centre.
AND 1 other similar by the same (closed tears in centre).
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, both w. his collector's stamp on verso.
= The signature is not similar to others by the artist, so perhaps added later.
- Contents of part of one sketchbook loosening.
= Jan Cornelis Bander was a drawing master at the Teekenschool and at the Ambachtsschool in Edam. He and his wife, Leonie Bander-Lutomirski, moved to Edam in 1911 and made many drawings in Edam, Volendam and surroundings. The sketchbooks contain many portraits (i.a. of a young child and a reading lady) but also show that occas. they took trips to other parts of Holland and even Germany. The largest sketchbook contains many pencil/ pen drawings and watercolours of (details of) buildings with annots. identifying the buildings, i.a. "Frankische kapel (Falkhof) Nijmegen", "Keizerzaal in den toren der St. Servaas kerk te Maastricht", "Domkerk te Spiers van het noordoosten" (pen and ink and watercolour), and on 1 leaf: "Kerk te Riddagshausen van het noordoosten" and "Kerk int Wang (Thans in Silezië)" (both pen and inkw. watercolour). Among the separate drawings are 2 small designs by Bandr's wife, one (unsigned) for the frontcover of Alie Smeding's book Het prinsesje van het groene eiland. Marker toneelspel in drie bedrijven (black crayon heightened w. yellow, 13x6 cm. This design was used on the edition published by Nijgh & Van Ditmar in 1927) and one for a poster titled "Jan van Heijningen Oliefabriek "Orion" Zaandam" with caption "Alleen door Orion, Valvoline, slaat men 't record met zijn machine" (pencil, 11,4x15 cm., signed and dated in pen and ink "L. Lutomirski sept. 1915". The design was probably not executed).
- Superficial scratch in the centre.
- Partly browed; blank margins soiled/ some moulding.
AND a contemp. handcol. engr. view of Rome and the Ponte Sant'Angelo, 18th cent., 26x41,5 cm., outer margins mounted under passepartout (vaguely foxed). - ADDED: a contemp. handcol. engr. view by Caspar PHILIPS, "Gezicht na de Leydsche Poort te Amsterdam" (±1750, some foxing).
- With extensive craquelure.
= Attractive drawings.
= Collector's mark of Hans van Leeuwen on verso (Lugt 2799a). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
- Drawing trimmed to the framing line; vertical fold; trifle yellowed.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his annotation in pen on verso.
- Unevenly yellowed/ sl. browned. = Not in Romers.
- Ample margins; trifle yellowed.
= Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his collector's mark on verso. According to Van den Broek it was Cornelis Pronk who was responsible for the the staffage of the drawing, apparently he drew himself on the right. Not many drawings by Bierens traced. The library of Universiteit Leiden holds a drawing of Castle Drakenburg in Laage Vuursche (PK-T-2946).
- A few sm. brown stains in sky area.
= Title supplied on ticket on verso frame (with concise biographical data of the artist).
- Mounts sl. soiled.
= With the artist atelier's stamp, with the address in the rue Mommaert (Mommaertstraat) in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium. According to an annotation on one of the mounts, the windows were executed for a church in Mazy (Namur).
- All sl. soiled/ foxed.
= I.a. a drawing with heads of characters from an unidentified work by Boileau, "Le directeur de femmes malades. de zieke vrouwenherder".
Idem. (Woman and her child buying flowers at a stall). Watercolour, 17,2x20,8 cm., signed "D.J. Bles f." in pen and brown ink.
- Lower corners dam.; sl. (dust)soiled. = Tipped together on the same mount.
- Small scratch in the sky to the left. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVI.
- Some craquelé, especially in the centre; dam. spot in centre of upper margin. Needs cleaning. Frame sl. dam.
- Laid down on modern paper mount; closed tears in lower right corner touching the image; sm. closed tears around margins.
= Likely a preparatory sketch for one of his paintings of the Church. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, w. his collector's stamp on verso.
- Ample margins; trifle yellowed.
= Showing two separate drawings within the same frame, portraying a nice summer and winter view. According to Van den Broek the draughtsman could also be Jacob de Bosch (18th cent.). Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, with his collector's mark on verso.
= Skillful drawing after Bouchardon's Etudes prises dans le bas Peuple, ou les Cris de Paris (Paris, 1737-1746).
- 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.