Old Master and British Works on Paper
Old Master and British Works on Paper
Lots 306-373: Property from the Collection of A.M. ('Ton') van den Broek
Jacob de Wit
Study for a ceiling painting with Apollo and Minerva, and other figures
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Lots 306-373: Property from the Collection of A.M. ('Ton') van den Broek
Jacob de Wit
Amsterdam 1695 - 1754
Study for a ceiling painting with Apollo and Minerva, and other figures
Red chalk, pen and black ink and shades of brown wash, the four corners cut;
signed on a separate tab of paper (presumably formerly part of lower margin): J:d:Wit: invt;
200 by 198 mm; 7⅞ by 7⅞ in.
Sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 19 April 1982, lot 43,
where purchased by A.M. (Ton) van den Broek (1932-1995), Haarlem (bears his mark, verso, not in Lugt)
Jacob de Wit was the leading decorative painter working in Amsterdam from around 1720 until his death in 1754. Having studied in Antwerp as well as Amsterdam, he was familiar with the grand ceiling decorations of Rubens, a number of which he copied in a historically important series of watercolors. Returning to Amsterdam, De Wit was well placed to satisfy the burgeoning market for decorative ceilings and overdoors, which the wealthy merchants of Amsterdam were commissioning not only for their splendid town houses on the Amsterdam canals, but also for their country residences, in the region of Haarlem and down the River Vecht, towards Utrecht.
Quite a number of De Wit's decorative paintings survive today in these elegant residences, but no painting corresponding with the present drawing has yet been identified. It must, though, have been made as a design for such a work.
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