Anthonie van Borssum

Bears unidentified collector's mark, verso (G.M. in a circle, not in Lugt);
Prof. Einar Perman, Stockholm,
his sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 9 June 1975, lot 99

Window mounted with Japan paper. Remains of paper strip adhering to top edge, verso, and some minor thin spots in that area. Very minor losses to framing lines at edges, particularly lower left. otherwise good, fresh condition.
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The handling in this attractively composed drawing can be compared with a number of Borssom's signed works, such as the example in the Lugt Collection, which, as Peter Schatborn has pointed out, belongs to the significant number of the artist's drawings that cannot easily be allocated to a particular period on stylistic grounds.¹  The penwork in the reeds is also similar to that in the Two Storks at a Reeded Shore, in the same collection.²  See also lot 101.

1. P. Schatborn, Rembrandt and his Circle, Drawings in the Frits Lugt Collection, 2 vols., Paris 2010, no. 36
2. Ibid, no. 39