Johan Edler Goll van Franckenstein

By inheritance to the artist's son, Johan Goll van Franckenstein Jr (1756-1821),
by inheritance to his daughter, Catharina Anthonia Bijleveld (1798-1854),
by inheritance to her son, Emil Pieter Bijleveld (1842-1898),
by inheritance to his son, Frank David Bijleveld (1879-1960),
purchased following his death by a Dutch private collector

Velsen-Zuid, Museum Beeckestijn, Is getekend, J. Goll van Franckenstein, tekeningen van een 18de-eeuwse heer, 1997, no. 14

Window mounted. Laid down. Small hole, just above bridge to centre. One or two other very minor repairs. Paper sligthly browned overall. One or two very minor brown stains. Otherwise good. Sold in a modern frame.
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The artist appears to have made this drawing from a boat moored more or less directly outside his own house, Herengracht 158. It shows the bridges over the Herengracht by the Warmoestraat, the Oude Spiegelstraat and the Wijde Heisteeg, seen from north to south.  A variant of the same view, from a viewpoint on the roadway beside the canal, is in the Van Eeghen Amsterdam collection at the Gemeentearchief, Amsterdam.¹

1. B. Bakker et al., De verzameling Van Eeghen, Amsterdamse tekeningen 1600-1950, Zwolle 1988, pp. 172-3, no. 138