6292 - 6524 FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
- Foxed.
= With an annotation on verso: "Verk. K. Blockhuysen 29 april 1872 n.202 Jan Van Ravenswaay".
- With some scattered touch-ups; probably revarnished.
= Various painted portraits attributed to/ by Van Ravesteyn feature the statues of the crouching or bending lions at the entrance to the pond in the background. Also there is another attributed painting (now in the collection of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed inv./cat.nr. C2108), showing a lady seated in a very similar chair as the lady above. On verso an old label with English title and attribution to "K de More" (Carel de Moor). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE C.
= Interesting collection of figure studies by the sculptor's family Rijnbout(t) from Utrecht. Besides Joannes (19x), his brother Jacobus Johannes RIjnboutt (1798-1849) (2x), Christianus Josephus Rijnbout (1803-1879) (also his brother?) (12x) and Josephus Antonius (1841-?) (9x).
- Slightly soiled and w. some pink offsetting; 3 vague vertical creases.
- Partly foxed and waterst. along margins, especially on verso; repaired tear in lower margin.
= Unidentified collector's stamp on verso.
= Sold at Sotheby's, Amsterdam in 2005 (lot 102). With manuscript text "Hinterlich (?) mein Ross fligt sich" in pen and ink in right part.
- Browned.
- Expertly laid down on thin Japanese.
= An attractive scene. With on verso the collector's mark of the foundation of Edwina van Heek, Enschede. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIX.
- All (but one) (heavily) foxed/ browned/ some defects in outer blank margins/ corners.
= I.a. views of Capri and Ischia.
- Doubled; lacks some tiny portions of outer blank margins; some offsetting and foxing around edges.
= With the collector's mark of Albert van Loock on verso (Lugt 3751).
AND 1 other drawing by the same.
- Blank corners cut-off; tear in lower margin.
ADDED 5 others, i.a. "Het veroveren der Stadt Allegona in 't Eylandt groot Canaria, in den Jaere MDXCIX" (from P. BOR CHRZ., Oorsprongk, begin, en vervolgh der Nederlandsche Oorlogen, Amst., 1684. Sl. Yellowed).
































