Crispijn de Passe the Elder
The Virtue Sedulitas (Assiduity)
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July 5, 10:16 AM GMT
Estimate
14,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Crispijn de Passe the Elder
Arnemuiden 1564 - 1637 Utrecht
The Virtue Sedulitas (Assiduity)
Pen and brown ink, within brown ink framing lines, indented for transfer;
signed, lower right, in brown ink: Crispin. fecit;
bears numberings in pencil, verso: No32; 3; VIII6 / 37 / 35 (in the hand of Arthur Feldmann); 296; 82 and inscription foa,-
172 by 142 mm
With R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 1929 (Dessins de Maîtres Anciens et Modernes, p. 84, reproduced, catalogue unnumbered),
where purchased by Arthur Feldmann, Brno,
sale, Lucerne, Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 28 June 1934, lot 82 (unsold, returned to Arthur Feldmann),
looted by the Gestapo from the Feldmann villa in Brno, 15 March 1939;
private collection, Frankfurt-am-Main, from which acquired circa 1980 by the late mother of the present owner;
the drawing is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement between the present owner and the heirs of Arthur Feldmann, as a result of which the latter permanently renounce any claim to the drawing.
where purchased by Arthur Feldmann, Brno,
sale, Lucerne, Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 28 June 1934, lot 82 (unsold, returned to Arthur Feldmann),
looted by the Gestapo from the Feldmann villa in Brno, 15 March 1939;
private collection, Frankfurt-am-Main, from which acquired circa 1980 by the late mother of the present owner;
the drawing is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement between the present owner and the heirs of Arthur Feldmann, as a result of which the latter permanently renounce any claim to the drawing.
Sale catalogue, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 2 November 1987, under lot 18
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