5059 - 5327 FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
- With a few sm./ tiny holes; a few rubbed spots along extremities; there is a hint of white gouache, but mostly worn off(?).
= After the arched wall painting in Palazzo Pitti in the Sala di Giove. Possibly by Ciro Ferri, Cortona's pupil. Compare the drawing by Ferri sold at Swann's in 2003, with the same collector's mark. With a collector's mark showing a Florentine lion and "PM" monogram within a circle and a mounted letterpress section "di Pietro da Cortona" on recto (Lugt 2099, probably a Florentine collector, mostly found with a printed mounted text with the name of the artist "di (....)") a. Probably an 18th century collector. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIV.
Drawing, brown wash over black crayon, heightened w. white, ±1837, 17,7x24,5 cm. - WITH on verso a study of two seated figures, probably by the same.
= Taken from ana sketchbook by the artist.
AND 2 other (biblical) sketches by the same, from the same sketchalbum as the above.
- Laid down on mount; foxed/ duststained.
= With an attribution to Gainsborough on verso. Sold by auction at Doyle, New York In 2010. With an accompanying ticket from the gallery of Helene C. Seiferheld (New York).
- Both on stiff paper w. vertical fold.
= Provenance: the collection of William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-1894) with his collector's mark (Lugt 2643) and C.P. van Eeghen (1880-1968), with his collector's mark (Lugt 6016).
- Sl. duststained, mostly near left edge and in lower part; sm. chip in left edge; the head seems to have been traced over.
= On 17th century laid paper with no visible watermark. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CV.
= Possibly also containing drawings by various (anonymous) other artists.
AND 14 other drawings, mostly views, all but one prob. Dutch, i.a. a river view (watercolour) w. signature "J.F. Hoppenbrouwers", houses (2 pencil drawings) by Jeanne HEINSIUS, a Dutch streetview (pencil sketch w. attribution to P.C. TETAR VAN ELVEN), a small sketch by W.C. NAKKEN, a forest view (brown ink) signed "J. Witsen", a farmyard (watercolour) monogrammed "W.F." and a valley (oil on paper, w. an attribution to Louis Apol, but perhaps by Armand Apol).






























