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Cornelis Springer

M.E. Coster's Diamond Company by the Amstel

Signed with initials and dated 52 lower left; signed, inscribed with title and dated Gezicht op de Diamandslijperij van den / WelEdele Heer M.E. Coster / aan den Amstel te Amsterdam / C. Springer fec ad vir. 1852 on the reverse; with the artist's stamp with initials branded CS on the stretcher

Oil on canvas

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Cornelis Springer
M.E. Coster's Diamond Company by the Amstel

Signed with initials and dated 52 lower left; signed, inscribed with title and dated Gezicht op de Diamandslijperij van den / WelEdele Heer M.E. Coster / aan den Amstel te Amsterdam / C. Springer fec ad vir. 1852 on the reverse; with the artist's stamp with initials branded CS on the stretcher

Oil on canvas

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist as it was commissioned by Moses Elias Coster, Amsterdam, 12 February 1852, for fl. 400

Collection of W.J.R. Dreesmann (1885 – 1954), Amsterdam, as Gezicht op den Binnen Amstel, by 1954

Anonymous sale, Frederick Muller, Amsterdam, 22 March 1960, lot 87, as Vue du “Binnen Amstel” vers la “Diaconie Weeshuis”. A droite la taillerie de diamants de M.E. Coster, for fl. 5.200

Anonymous sale, Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 18 May 1965, lot 496, as Gezicht op de Binnen Amstel naar het Diaconie Weeshuis. Rechts de diamantslijperij van M.E. Coster

Acquired by the present owner, circa 1990s

Exhibition

Enkhuizen, Zuiderzeemuseum, Door het oog van Cornelis Springer (1817-1891): Een ontdekkingstocht langs de steden rondom de Zuiderzee, 12 December 2015 - 27 March 2016, no. 190

Literature

W. Laanstra, H. C. de Bruijn, Dr. J. H. A. Ringeling, Cornelis Springer (1817-1891), Utrecht, 1984, p. 76, no. 52-3, as De nieuwe diamantslijperij aan de Amstel te Amsterdam, gezien naar het Diaconie Weeshuis

Arnold Ligthart, Door het oog van Cornelis Springer (1817-1891). Een ontdekkingstocht langs de steden rondom de Zuiderzee, Schiedam, 2015, p. 148, no. 190, as De nieuwe diamantslijperij van M.E. Coster aan de Amstel te Amsterdam