6292 - 6524 FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
- Laid down on board, w. a handdrawn decorative border.
= With the collector's mark of André Hippolyte Lemonnier (1794-1871) (Lugt 1330a) on recto. With a wrongful/ misnamed attribution to Angélique Moitte. In 1992 a drawing was sold at Ader-Tajan (Paris) with a very similar scene of women reading at a table ("La lecture en famille"). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVII.
- Duststained and sl. browned.
= Perhaps by the botanist Jan Willem Moll. A slightly romanticised view of the Dom church in Utrecht (?).
Anonymous (19th cent.). (Nightly procession leaving a church). Drawing, brush and ink and white gouache, 16,2x14,3 cm.
- Laid down on board.
- Yellowed; sl. foxed in sky area; sm. strengthened spot in upper margin on verso (not visible on recto).
= Fine view of the Zuider Buiten Spaarne seen towards the South, with the country seat Spaar en Hout (Spaarnhout) at the right. The drawing is rather similar to one of the views in Aangenaame gezichten in de vermakelyke landsdouwen van Haarlem. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVIII.
- Needs cleaning; craquelure throughout surface; quite a few retouches.
= Copy with a few interesting differences compared to the original: it is larger (80-99 cm.) than the painting that was sold in 2021 in Chicago (Freeman's/ Hindman) that measured 61x61 cm., but still smaller than the size that David A. de Witt gives for the original painting (120x104,14 cm. which was the size listed in the sales catalogues of the painting up to 1947 (New York, Parke-Bernet, Henry Rogers Benjamin sale , 15-17 May 1947). Secondly the red skirt that covers the right leg of the Caritas/ mother figure is trimmed to reveal her right leg from knee down to her foot; thirdly the crouching boy in the lower left corner is almost entirely present in our copy. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.
- Vaguely foxed; sl. yellowed and expertly laid down on thin Japanese. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCVIII.
- Tipped onto later paper mount. = Attribution on mount in pencil in old hand.
AND 2 other drawings, 1x w. attrib. on verso to the same.
- Sm. dam spot near centre right edge.
= Perhaps a study after the engraving by Piroli, from the series Le appresso dodici figure si vedono dipinte da Mic. Ang. Bonaroti nella volta della capella Sistina.





























