PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PROFESSOR EGBERT HAVERKAMP-BEGEMANN
Jan de Bisschop
VIEW OF KATWIJK-OP-ZEE
LOT SOLD.
32,500 USD
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Old Master Drawings including the Collection of Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
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Jan de Bisschop
AMSTERDAM 1628 - 1671 THE HAGUE
VIEW OF KATWIJK-OP-ZEE
Pen and brown ink and wash;
inscribed in brown ink, upper centre: Catwÿk op Zee
97 by 149 mm; 3¾ by 5 7/8 in
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inscribed in brown ink, upper centre: Catwÿk op Zee
97 by 149 mm; 3¾ by 5 7/8 in
Provenance
F. Knight,
his sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 29 October 1979, lot 206;
with Adolphe Stein, London, exhibited July 1981, no. 15
his sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 29 October 1979, lot 206;
with Adolphe Stein, London, exhibited July 1981, no. 15
Catalogue Note
Like several other very talented Dutch landscape artists of the second half of the seventeenth century, Jan de Bisschop's primary profession was not that of artist, although he appears to have studied with Bartholomeus Breenbergh, whose style was a great influence on him. In 1649, the year after his earliest dated drawing was executed, de Bisschop enrolled as a law student in Leiden, where he remained until 1652. Thereafter he moved to The Hague to take up a legal appointment at the Court. De Bisschop continued his activities as a draughtsman during his professional career and made a large number of drawings of the area around The Hague.
The present sheet is stylistically similar to the drawings De Bisschop produced in and around The Hague. There is great freedom in the application of wash that is almost impressionistic in its handling. De Bisschop's assured use of wash, seen throughout his graphic oeuvre, is highly sophisticated giving variety and depth to his compositions.
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