Lot 326
  • 326

Josephus Augustus Knip Tilburg 1777 - 1847 Berlicum

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Description

  • Josephus Augustus Knip
  • a sheet of studies of monks and clerics, including carthusians and franciscans
  • bears attribution in purple, verso: J.A. Knip
    pen and grey ink and watercolour over traces of black chalk
    Inv.nr. N 185

Exhibited

Dordrecht 1994-5, addenda, no. 22;
The Hague 2001, cat. no. 68, reproduced in colour, p. 157, fig. 32

Literature

E.S. Bergvelt, J.A. Knip (1777-1847) landschapschilder, Amsterdam 1974 (unpublished doctoral thesis), catalogue of drawings nr 47;
Amsterdam/Dordrecht 1994-5, p. 133, reproduced fig. 64.2

Catalogue Note

We are very grateful to Ellinoor Bergvelt for informing us that a very comparable sheet of studies of clerics is in the collection of the Stichting Fundatie Ploos van Amstel Knoef at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and that the artist seems to have made use of both these study sheets in preparing his large 1810 painting of the Basilica of Constantine and Maxentius, now in a private collection in Venray (see J.A. Knip 1777-1847, exhibition catalogue, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noordbrabantsmuseum, 1977, cat. no. 28, reproduced).