Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus
Hunting bear with nets and dogs
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July 3, 10:51 AM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus
(Bruges 1523 - 1605 Florence)
Hunting bear with nets and dogs
Pen and brown ink and brown and grey wash, heightened with white (on paper washed beige); indented for transfer
199 by 290 mm
William A. Baillie-Grohman (1851-1921), London (L.370), one of fifty-six Stradanus drawings owned by him;
his widow, Mrs Baillie-Grohman,
her sale, London Sotheby's, 14 May 1923, in lot 157, 158, 159 or 161,
C.F.G.R Schwerdt,
his sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 July 1929, part of lot 1305;
Marcel Jeanson,
his sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 1 March 1987, lot 536,
where acquired by the present owner
W.A. Baillie-Grohman, Sport in Art. An Iconography of sport, London 1913, p. 122, fig. 62;
C.F.G.R. Schwerdt, Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, illustrated in a catalogue of books, manuscripts, prints and drawings, collected by C.F.G.R. Schwerdt, London 1928, no. 21;
W. Bok van Kammen, Stradanus and the Hunt (thesis John Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1977), Ann Arbor University Microfilm, 1982, pp. 303-304;
A.B. Vannucci, Jan Van Der Straet detto Giovanni Stradano, Milan 1997, p. 249, no. 319, reproduced p. 248, fig. 319 (the print illustrated p. 375)