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Lot 112
  • 112

Allaert van Everdingen

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Allaert van Everdingen
  • Wooded Landscape with City Rooftops in the Distance
  • Brush and black ink and grey wash, on grey-blue paper;
    signed with initials in grey wash, lower right: AVE

Provenance

Johann Andreas Boerner (1785-1862), Nuremberg (L.269-270: his inscription: J.A. Boerner / 1841 / DVO.dua),
his posthumous sale, Leipzig, Weigel, 22 January 1763 ff, lot 1154;
F. Heimsoth, Bonn,
his posthumous sale, Frankfurt, Prestel, 5 May 1879, lot 56, to Sträter;
August Sträter, Aachen (L.787),
his posthumous sale, Stuttgart, Gutekunst, 10 May 1898, lot 1116;
Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt, Berlin (L.2926),
his posthumous sale, Frankfurt, Prestel, 4 October 1917, lot 196, to Levy;
Arthur Feldmann, Brno;
looted by the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia;
accessioned by the National Gallery, Prague, inv. DK 4588 (bears their mark, verso: NGGS/PRAHA, not in Lugt);
restituted to the heirs of Arthur Feldmann in 2013

Exhibited

Prague, National Gallery, Dutch Drawings, 16th and 17th Centuries, 1993-94, p.35, no. 33, reproduced on p. 55 

Literature

A.I. Davies, The Drawings of Allart van Everdingen, Doornspijk 2007, pp. 238-9, no. 185

Condition

Paper rather faded and dicoloured. Various thin spots, especially bottom centre, in some cases backed with Japan paper. Light horizontal crease towards top right. Minor abrasions towards bottom edge, especially towards left. Remains of various old hinges,and of narrow strip of paper stuck to edge of sheet, verso.
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