Lambert Harmensz. Doomer Amsterdam 1624 - 1700

Vincent van Gogh;
His sale, Amsterdam, Muller, 12 February 1913, lot 226;
Dr C. Otto (L.611c);
His sale, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 7 November 1929, lot 49;
With P. and D. Colnaghi, London;
Dr. C.R. Rudolf (L.2811b)
His sale, London, Sotheby's, 21 May 1963, lot 32, reproduced

London, Royal Academy, Drawings by Old Masters, 1953, cat. no. 326;
London, Birmingham, Leeds, The Arts Council, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr C.R. Rudolf, 1962, cat. no. 96, plate 18.

 

H. Dattenberg, 'Lambert Doomer als Zeichner,' in Pantheon, Jahrgang 25, Munich, 1940, pp. 13-16, plate 15;
H. van den Berg, 'Willem Schellinks en Lambert Doomer in Frankrijk,' in Oudheidkundig Jaarboek, Series 4, Jahrgang II, Leiden, 1942, no. 100;
Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections, Supplement, The Hague, 1956, under L.611c (the Otto sale);
W. Schulz, Lambert Doomer. 1624-1700. Leben und Werke, Diss., Berlin 1972, pp. 36, 224, no. 26;
Idem, Lambert Doomer Sämtliche Zeichnungen, Berlin/New York, 1974, cat. no. 24, fig. 15;
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. II, New York 1979, no. 427

In 1645 Lambert Doomer journeyed to France, to visit his two brothers who were living in Nantes.  He was joined there in May of the following year by his fellow landscapist, Willem Schellinks, and the two artists then made a sketching trip along the Loire.  Doomer made many drawings at this time, mostly in black chalk, which he seems to have worked up at a later date.  More than 20 years later, he also made a large series of elaborate, highly finished repetitions of his French drawings, usually on a distinctive ledger paper.  Though clearly executed in the artist's later style, some of those repetitions are, confusingly, genuinely signed and dated 1645 or '46 on the reverse, referring presumably to the date when the original sketch was made.

Although no other version of this drawing is known, it does appear to depict a French scene, in which case this too must be a later work, based on a lost travel sketch from 1645-6.