5059 - 5327 FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
Watercolour, 17,5x14 cm., signed "R. Craeyvanger 1857" in lower right corner.
- Upper left corner torn off; closed tear in lower margin.
= Study for the left part of the painting "Marktdag te Haarlem" (Frans Halsmus., Haarlem).
AND 2 other drawings by the same: Zij viel op eenen stoel neder and Historische voorstelling bij een schip.
- A few repaired spots in outer margins.
= Provenance: collector's mark of J.A.M. Byvoet on verso (Lugt 2841b); earlier provenance (i.a. auction Glerum, Nov. 1997) and title supplied on passepartout.
- Yellowed/ sl. browned; sm. lightbrown spot in a woman's face.
= Provenance: collector's mark of J.A.M. Byvoet on verso (Lugt 2841b) and sale Mak van Waay, 27/4/1970 (collection Théonville).
= Provenance: collector's mark of J.A.M. Byvoet on verso (Lugt 2841b); earlier provenance (De Zon, Oct. 1956) and title supplied on passepartout.
- Partly foxed.
= From the collection of J.A.M. Bijvoet, all drawings with his collector's stamp on verso (Lugt 2841b).
- Foxed/ sl. browned; some sl. surface dam. in upper margin (affecting image).
= From the collection of J.A.M. Bijvoet, with his collector's stamp on verso (Lugt 2841b).
- Soiled. = With a later attribution to Tiepolo on recto. Ornamental design.
- Professionally restored horizontal crack in panel. Needs cleaning (varnish yellowed).
= Anthonie Delorme, Rotterdam painter who is known to have used the Laurens church as the main inspiration for his church interiors. Provenance: purchased by the present owner in 2012 at an auction in Hannover.
= These drawings are after the reproductions of the sketches/ caricatures, published in Versailles et Paris en 1871 (Paris, 1907) which show the communards an politicians during the trials of the communards in 1871.
- Browned; 5 closed tears in the margins of the image.
= From the collection of J.A.M. Bijvoet, with his collector's stamp on verso (Lugt 2841b). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIII.
- A few chafed spots along lower edge on recto.
= With an annotation in pen and ink (by the artist?): "Sur le chemin de Castelgandolfo a Marino". Provenance C.P. van Eeghen (1880-1968) with his collector's mark on verso and by descent to the present owners. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIV.
- Sl. browned; remnants of former mounts on verso. = With unidentified collector's mark on verso.
= Perhaps the Buitengasthuis in Amsterdam?
AND ±20 other drawings by/ attrib. to the same, various sizes, i.a. landscapes and views (after Cornelis BUYS), after prints and paintings (i.a. after Jacques KUYPER, from De Mensch zoo als hij voorkomt by M. STUART, and after Ludolf BACKHUYZEN), partly signed/ monogrammed and dated between 1821 and 1830.
= Incl. a contribution to an album amicorum: "Gezigt te Beekbergen met Apeldoorn in het verschiet".
= After (?) the ceiling fresco in the Sala di Saturno of the Palazzo Pitti. Curious drawing with colour annotations in numbers, the legend for the colours on verso in pen and ink. On verso also annotations from an 17th century Italian ledger (?) in Italian on wool ("di stame"). Perhaps from a wool merchant. With a wax seal. The composition seems to have been copied after the fresco, but there are some differences. I.a. the tree branches in the upper left corner. Perhaps a sample sheet used for the fresco?
= A circular design, perhaps for a wall painting. With a later attribution on verso and on the mount to Pietro da Cortona. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIII.