JOHANNES LINGELBACH | A Mediterranean quayside scene

Dieker, Braunfels;
Dr. Walter Beck, Berlin (L.2603c);
Armand Gobiet, Seeham;
With Galerie Welz, Salzburg, 1970,
from whom acquired by F.C. Butôt (1906-92), Sankt Gilgen, Austria,
his posthumous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 16 November 1993, lot 50

Kassel, Sammlung Deiker, 1930-31, cat. 134;
Salzburg, Museumpavillon im Mirabellgarten, Niederländische Kunst aus dem Goldenen Jahrhundert, July-September 1972; Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum,  Niederländische Kunst aus dem Goldenen Jahrhundert, September 1972-January 1973; Rotterdam, Museum Boyman-van Beuningen, Hollandse en Vlaanse Kunst uit de 17^e eeuw, February-April 1973

L.J. Bol, G.S. Keyes and F.C. Butôt, Netherlandish Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of F.C. Butôt by little-known and rare masters of the seventeenth century, 1981, cat. 72; 

Window mounted. Overall in fairly good condition. Light staining in the upper section of the sheet and a small repaired hole at the lower margin near the right corner of the sheet. Otherwise pen and ink and wash remains strong and vibrant.
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Almost all Lingelbach's drawings, which are not particularly numerous, depict the Mediterranean harbour scenes familiar from his painted works.  The majority of these drawings are, however, rather smaller in format than the present sheet (circa 150 by 240 mm).  A number of these smaller drawings served as preparatory studies for a series of twelve etchings made by Johnannes Groensveld, and published under the title Aliqi portus (Holl. 30-41), and at least one autograph drawing on a larger scale, formerly in the Klaver collection, is also related in composition to this series of prints.¹  It would, however, appear that the present drawing, like the other larger sheets in Hamburg (Kunsthalle, inv. 22116 and 22117) and Paris (Louvre, inv. 22.732), was made as an independent work. ^1. M. Schapelhouman and P. Schatborn, Tekeningen van Oude Meesters, de verzameling Jacobus A. Klaver, exhib.cat., Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet, 1993, cat. 84, reproduced.