Old Master & British Works on Paper

Aert Schouman

A woman spinning, after Gerard ter Borch

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July 6, 03:55 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Aert Schouman

Dordrecht 1710 - 1792 The Hague

A woman spinning, after Gerard ter Borch

Pen and brown ink and watercolour over traces of black chalk within pen and ink framing lines;

inscribed recto, on the leg of the chair: GB , signed, dated and inscribed, verso: A. Schouman. fecit 1779 na G. terburg in Cabinet van docter tak te Lijden, en na zijns./doot.verkogt aen het fontijntje publiek voor/530 guldens. den 5 Sept. 1781.

195 by 165 mm

Sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 25 November 1992, lot 647;
sale, New York, Christie's, 26 January 2016, lot 49

J. Giltaij, et al., De verzameling van de Stichting Willem van der Vorm in het Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, Rotterdam 1994, p. 115, reproduced;
A.K. Wheelock, Jr., Gerard ter Borch, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and elsewhere, 2005, p. 96, under no. 20.

In the later 18th and early 19th century, it became very popular for Dutch artists to make watercolour copies of exceptional paintings by earlier masters, and this attractive watercolour is a good example of this tradition. The original painting, now in the collection of the Stichting Willem van der Vorm at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, was in the collection of a certain Dr. Tak of Leiden when Schouman made his copy. A few years later, another painter, Abraham Delfos (1731-1820) made a second watercolour copy of the painting, which by this time he himself owned.¹

1. Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet, inv. RP-T-1913-46