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AERT SCHOUMAN | A View of Vianen with boats on the River Lek
Estimate
800 - 1,200 USD
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Description
- Aert Schouman
- A View of Vianen with boats on the River Lek
- Pen and gray ink and wash, within brown ink framing lines;inscribed in gray ink in the border, lower center: Vianen aen de Leck. and signed with the artist's initials, lower right: A:S. Fecit.
- 131 by 211 mm; 5 1/8 by 8 1/4 in
Provenance
With Antiquariaat A.G. Van der Steur, Harlem,
from whom acquired by the present owners in 1998
from whom acquired by the present owners in 1998
Condition
Hinge mounted in two places along the upper edge to a modern mount. There is some very minor toning to the sheet and some thinning to the paper to the centre of the left edge. The work remains in otherwise good condition throughout, with the gray washes strong. Sold unframed.
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In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
Though he is most celebrated today for his extraordinary work as an artist of ornithological and zoological subject matters, Schouman was also a prolific documenter of landscape in his native Holland. The present drawing, which depicts a view of the city of Vianen, fits securely into a corpus of drawings Schouman produced on the same scale and in the same distinctive combination of media, examples of which are today housed in the collection of the Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen, Middelburg.1 Many of these drawings are similarly signed and inscribed to their lower borders, in the same idiosyncratic fashion as the present lot.
1. Middelburg, Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen, inv. nos. ZI-II-1490, ZI-II-0354 and ZI-II-0343
1. Middelburg, Koninklijk Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen, inv. nos. ZI-II-1490, ZI-II-0354 and ZI-II-0343