The Unicorno Collection: Fifty-five Years of Collecting Drawings

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Lot 349
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Johannes Bosboom The Hague 1817 - 1891

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Description

  • Johannes Bosboom
  • the gate of the nieuwe or sint sebastiaansdoelen in hoorn
  • signed with initials, dated and inscribed lower right: Hoorn Doelen / IB Sept 83
  • black chalk and watercolour, heightened with white
    Inv.nr. N 259

Provenance

Mr. Th. Kolff, Cascais (Portugal)

Exhibited

Amsterdam/Dordrecht 1994-5, cat. no. 71

Catalogue Note

In the summer of 1880 Johannes Bosboom and his wife spent a couple of weeks in the city of Hoorn. This summer was a peak in Bosboom's artistic career. According to his wife, Bosboom would spend entire days in the city making studies of houses, gates, streets, alleys and the Doelenplein. The present lot was probably drawn during this summer. The watercolour was probably added later, in 1883.