A Fine Line: Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
A Fine Line: Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Cornelis Troost
Scene from Thomas Asselyn’s Farce, 'Jan Claasz., or the Supposed Servant Girl' (Act III, scene VI)
Auction Closed
July 7, 10:53 AM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Cornelis Troost
Amsterdam 1696 - 1750
Scene from Thomas Asselyn’s Farce, 'Jan Claasz., or the Supposed Servant Girl' (Act III, scene VI)
Pen and black ink, watercolour and gouache, over black and red chalk, within black ink framing lines;
signed and dated, lower right: C. Troost / 1745
434 by 518 mm
Possibly sale, Amsterdam, 9 December 1776, lot A 1;
possibily C. Smitt, Amsterdam, sale, Amsterdam, 4 December 1780, lot F 375,
purchased at the sale by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (provenance up to this point is from Niemeijer, op. cit., no. 381 T);
H.M. Montauban van Swijndregt,
sale Amsterdam, R.W.P. de Vries, 5 April 1906, lot 199 (sold for F. 125, to Dirksen);
Sir Hugh Lane;
Oliver Messel
possibily C. Smitt, Amsterdam, sale, Amsterdam, 4 December 1780, lot F 375,
purchased at the sale by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (provenance up to this point is from Niemeijer, op. cit., no. 381 T);
H.M. Montauban van Swijndregt,
sale Amsterdam, R.W.P. de Vries, 5 April 1906, lot 199 (sold for F. 125, to Dirksen);
Sir Hugh Lane;
Oliver Messel
J.W. Niemeijer, Cornelis Troost 1696-1750, Assen 1973, pp. 265-6, no. 382 T (possibly also no. 381 T)