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Lot 101
  • 101

Jan de Bisschop Amsterdam 1628 - 1671 The Hague

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Description

  • Jan de Bisschop
  • a kermesse
  • pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk

Provenance

This drawing appears to be the one sold at Christie's in 1981, for which Professor J.G. van Gelder provided the following early provenance:
S. Feitama, 1758;
J. van der Marck, 1773;
J. Tak, 1780 (described in his 'Kunstboek');
Delfos;
Vis Blokhuizen, 1893 (?);
W.C.P. Baron van Reede van Oudtshoorn, 1874;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 16 November 1981, lot 81 (as measuring 343 by 521mm)

Catalogue Note

After a large painting, formerly attributed to Theodor van Thulden, which now hangs in the Belgian Embassy in Madrid (Catalogue Inventaire de la Peinture Ancienne, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels 1984, p. 414, inv. no. 235, illustrated).