PIETER HOLSTEYN AND AERT SCHOUMAN | A BLUE HEADED TERN IN AN ESTUARY LANDSCAPE
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January 29, 05:09 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
PIETER HOLSTEYN (HAARLEM 1614 - 1673) AND AERT SCHOUMAN (DORDRECHT 1710 - 1792 THE HAGUE)
A BLUE HEADED TERN IN AN ESTUARY LANDSCAPE
Watercolor with touches of gouache, within brown ink framing lines;
signed with the artist's monogram in black ink, lower right: PH. fe.
bears a faint numbering in pencil, upper right: 173
155 by 201 mm; 6⅛ by 8 in
Probably the collection of Aert Schouman (1710-1792),
his estate sale, The Hague, B. Scheurleer, 10 December 1792, lot 910
This fascinating and rare sheet is one of only a small number of known watercolors by Pieter Holsteyn, to have subsequently had an elaborate landscape added by Aert Schouman, to whom, it can be assumed, the present sheet once belonged.
Other examples, similarly signed by Holsteyn with his monogram "PH. fe.", before having landscapes added by Schouman in his highly distinctive manner, characterized by the broad application of watercolor, can be found in the collections of the Fondation Custodia, Paris1 and the North Holland Archives, Haarlem.2
1. See C. Dumas et al, Een Koninklijk Paradijs, Aert Schouman en de verbeelding van de natuur, Dordrecht 2017, p. 156, no. 226, reproduced
2. Ibid., no. 227, reproduced