5793 - 6157 FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
- Laid down on modern paper; various dam. and overpainted spots and sections, mostly along the edges; sl. frayed (mostly in the right edge).
- On woven paper. = Attribution in pencil on verso. Perhaps by Hermanus Numan.
= Showing i.a. windmill 'De Liefhebber', with the skyline of Haarlem with the St. Bavo church in the background.
- Upper right corner trifle creased and trifle foxed.
- A few sm. dents/ stains in upper part; nevertheless an attractive drawing.
= Supplied w. a photograph of the Bottelpoort in Nijmegen, showing some ressemblance.
= Artist identified on passepartout frame.
- A few vague foxed spots; trifle yellowed. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXIII.
- Lacks upper left blank corner (repaired); some foxing/ soiling.
= Outside the central composition also a small sketch and some ink blotting lines. The artist became an American citizen in 1880 and died in 1911 in the Bronx.
- Small stain in centre; sl. yellowed. = Attribution on passepartout.
= Provenance: the collection of J. and C. Ulmann.
= From the collection of I.G. van Regteren Altena.
- With red chalk grid; large closed tear in the upper right corner; central vertical fold; sm. section strengthened along upper edge; sl. frayed; some dustsoiling, mostly near outer edges and sm. scattered inkstains.
= A grisaille painting by Lairesse was sold in March 2021 at Koller with the exact same composition (authenticated by Alain Roy), measuring 88x144 cm. (2 and 1/3 times larger). Perhaps this is the design for that painting and the grid was used as a tool for enlarging. Or this drawing was copied from that painting. There are a few differences, most notably the flowers beneath the tambourine and foot of Herakles, which are not present in the painting, as well as the branch growing between the personification of Virtue and Herakles. On laid paper with watermark of a crowned coat of arms with a French lily, beneath the monogram WR and below that the monogram "cVI".