Property of a Noble Belgian Family
Maarten van Heemskerck
Daniel Pulled out of the Lions' Den
Auction Closed
July 3, 10:51 AM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property of a Noble Belgian Family
Maarten van Heemskerck
(Heemskerk 1498 – 1574 Haarlem)
Daniel Pulled out of the Lions’ Den
Pen and brown ink over black chalk, within brown ink framing lines; the outlines indented for transfer;
signed and dated, centre left: Martyn van / Heemskerck / inventor / 1564, and numbered, lower centre: 9;
bears numberings, verso: 9 (brown ink, top centre), I / XX (brown ink, left edge, upper centre; possibly numbering of Valerius Röver), and N3055 (maroon ink, lower left; Goll van Franckenstein);
bears 17th-century inscriptions in black chalk: no.28 de histori van Daniel / van Heemskerk, and lower down, in same hand: 10 stuks s f 5 – is f 50
197 by 251 mm
Valerius Röver (1686-1739), Delft (bears numbering, possibly his, in brown ink, verso: I / XX, see L.2984a-c),
Röver collection until 17611;
Jonkheer Johan Goll van Franckenstein the Elder (1722-1785), Amsterdam (L.2987),
by inheritance to his son, Jonkheer Johan Goll van Franckenstein the Younger (1750-1821), his sale, Amsterdam, De Vries et al, 1 July 1833 KB X, no. 13 (“Twee stuks voorstellingen uit het leven van Daniël. Uitvorig met de pen, door M. VAN HEEMSKERC, 1564”);
possibly Auguste Coster, Brussels (according to handwritten inscription on an unidentified sale catalogue entry, pasted to the back of the frame);
Alexis Josephus Capouillet (1775-1845), Brussels,
thence by family descent to the present owners
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