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Anthonie Waterloo
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Anthonie Waterloo
- Recto: A Road running through a village;verso: a rocky landscape with buildings
- Pen and black ink and grey wash over red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink and brown and grey wash (verso);
on two joined sheets of paper;
signed in brown ink, lower left: A. Waterloo - 3 5/8 x 11 inches
Provenance
H. Lempertz, Cologne (L.1337);
Jacobus A. Klaver, Amsterdam (his mark, not in Lugt, on the backing sheet),
his sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 10 May 1994, lot 32,
purchased by Drs. Hilary and Irena Koprowski
Jacobus A. Klaver, Amsterdam (his mark, not in Lugt, on the backing sheet),
his sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 10 May 1994, lot 32,
purchased by Drs. Hilary and Irena Koprowski
Condition
Window mounted with Japan paper which is hinged to the mount at the upper margin. Drawn on two joined sheets of paper. Overall in fairly good condition. A few tiny fox marks on the recto, barely visible. There are a few small light brown stains on the verso. Medium remains fresh and strong. Sold in a carved and gilded frame.
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
The artist has here drawn across the full width of an open sketchbook, hence the drawing's unusual format. The drawing on the verso does not, however, extend across both sheets, so the pages must have been extracted from the sketchbook before at least one of the sides was drawn on. On sketches made from life such as this, Waterloo would have based his characteristic, large landscape drawings, executed in the studio. The use of red chalk in this context is, however, very unusual; of some fifty drawings on sketchbook pages of this size which Waterloo executed during the course of his travels through Germany in around 1660, only one incorporates any red.1 The sketch of a mountainous scene on the verso of the present sheet is comparable in technique and subject to a page from the German sketchbook which was formerly with C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf.2
1. L. & W. Stubbe, Um 1660 auf Reisen gezeichnet. Anthonie Waterloo, 1610-1690, Hamburg 1983, pp. 118, 119, 181, pl. 40
2. Catalogue, 1990/91, no. 127.