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Lot 21
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* Jan Lievens Leiden 1607 - 1674 Amsterdam

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Description

  • Jan Lievens
  • the outer gate of the ruins of brederode castle
  • pen and brown ink, within brown ink framing lines

Provenance

J. van der Velden;
his sale, Amsterdam, 13 December 1781, portfolio K, no. 659 (to Oets);
probably sale, Amsterdam, 13 April 1919, portfolio B, no. 18 (to Lamberts);
A. Glüensein (L.123);
Marquis de Valori (L.2500);
his sale, Paris, 25 October-2 November 1907, lot 156 (to Hofstede de Groot);
sale, Amsterdam, Jonkheer Alfred Boreel, and others, 15 June 1908, lot 370 (to F. Meyer, Dresden);
with C.G. Boerner, Leipzig (Lagerliste, 1909, no. 112);
with F. Meyer, Dresden (Lagerliste, 1910, no. 1560);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 7 December 1920, lot 479;
with A. Parsons, London (Stocklist 1922, no. 205, reproduced);
Bernard Houthakker (L.1272);
his sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Way, 17-18 November 1975, lot 154;
J. Kraus Gallery, Paris (their exhibition, 1977, no. 28, reproduced);
sale, London, Christie's, 24 June 1980, lot 15;
John and Alice Steiner

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Dessins Exposés chez Bernard Houthakker, 1952, no. 49;
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, De Verzameling van Bernard Houthakker, 1964, cat. no. 54

Literature

H. Schneider, Jan Lievens, sein Leben und seine Werke,  Haarlem, 1932, cat. no. Z 139;
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. 7, New York 1983, p. 3874, cat. no. 1742x

 

Catalogue Note

Sumowski (loc. cit.) suggests this drawing was done on the spot and compares it stylistically with a drawing by Lievens in the Louvre (Sumowski, op. cit., vol. 7, no. 1712x). A drawing by Anthoine van Borssum in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, appears to have been drawn from the same position as the present study (see Sumowski, op. cit., vol. 2, p. 668, no. 312)