5059 - 5327 FINE ARTS - 16th-19th CENTURY DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS and PAINTINGS
= Peter Schiönning made an engraving after this drawing, possibly the Castle of Fribourg.
- Folded; sl. waterstained. = With the stamp of Museum Roosendaal on verso.
- Trifle worn along margins.
Lalieux, G. de (19th cent.). (A woman praying below a crucifix). Drawing, pen and brush and brown ink, 25x17,5 cm., laid down on board. - AND 7 other miscell drawings, 18th-20th cent., i.a. of a decorated candelabrum and an early 20th cent. picture story.
= Partly with collector's mark of Albert Van Loock on verso (Lugt 3751).
= Charming, Romantic style and sl. naive drawings.
- Left margin partly drawn on the board mount; sl. yellowed.
- Laid down on 18th cent. laid paper; two chafed spots on/ near the nose.
- Laid down on 18th/ early 19th century mount; sm. waterstain near upper edge.
= Perhaps after Adriaen van der Kabel.
- Sm. portions in upper corners repaired.
= On verso also a vague sketch of a putto or boy pulling a goat. On verso a row of initials in pencil (perhaps collector's marks or monograms of art teachers). With a watermark Fleur-de-lis in a crowned shield, below monogram "VDL" (Van der Ley). Perhaps French school.
- With a later annotation on recto "Breughel" in pen and brown ink.; margins extended with later wove paper.
= On laid paper with Pro Patria watermark.
- Sl. stained and browned. = On laid paper with "LVG" watermark (Lubertus van Gerrevink).
AND 19 other drawings, 18th-19th cent., i.a. views and a larger drawing of a falconer carrying a rack with falcons.
- Verso w. traces of former mounting in corners. = On paper with watermark "IV".
- Repaired tear in upper margin; partly foxed; corners worn.
- Ink trifle faded; sl. yellowed; a few vague foxed spots; tiny closed tear in outer margin; tiny closed hole in upper right part.
= Possibly St. Francis or Anthony of Padua.
- Browned, w. offsetting from former passepartout; glassine remnants along edges on verso.
= With a (later?) annotation in French: "Ruine du clocher de l'ancienne ville de Calais un(?) demi lieu de la moderne (unread) chemins de Boulogne a Gravelines". This church was demolished in 1882, to make way for a hospital, on the Quai du Commerce towards the St. Pierre bridge. On laid paper with the watermark of J. Honig en Zoonen (±1765-1800).
- Tipped onto contemporary mounts (each castle identified in pen and brown ink on mount); all mounts soiled; all drawings with a few (sm.) stains, one worse.
= On laid paper, partly with the watermark of Honig en Zoonen (2nd half 18th cent.).
- Occas. some sm. defects.
= According to annotations on one of the passepartouts these drawings were found in the attics of Antwerp's townhall during the 'French occupation' and attributed at the time to Rubens. They were found pasted into a book on architectural ornaments and figures.
- Heavily nibbled by silverfish, partly repaired. Sold w.a.f.
= On laid paper with the watermark of Adriaan Rogge (act. 1759-1816). Attractive example of a Dutch neoclassicist interior.
- Formerly folded; creases in upper margin; some vague foxed spots.
= On laid paper with Pro Patria Watermark. With the collectors' marks of i.a. Lodewijk Houthakker on verso of passepartout (Lugt 3893). Führing, Design into Art (1989), no. 441: "The oval frame, for a picture or a mirror, has a decoration of Mercury's staff and laurel leaves on the left and a snake and a hand-mirror with roses on the right. For another use for a similar frame, see the drawing by Pierre Clément Marillier (1740-1808) for an engraved portrait frame in the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin".
- Slightly thumbed; 2 tiny closed tears in right margin; upper right corner sl. worn.
= With calligraphed text "Pecata au lit de la mort", "des suites de son assasinat mars 1793", figure sketches and the collector's mark of Albert van Loock on verso (Lugt 3751).
