NEW EXPOSITION SEPTEMBER/OKTOBER 2022
"Traveller-painters" in the 19th and early 20th century
From 29 September to 3 October 2022 Ubbens Art will held in close cooperation with Robert Schreuder Antiquair an exhibition:
"Traveller-painters in the 19th and early 20th century, including souvenirs from the Grand Tour"
A late 19th century marble copy after Praxiteles of Hermes and the infant Dionysus
And a Bacchante by Jan van Beers (1852-1927)
A.S., 1871
Tourists and their guide on the via dei Sepolcri, Pompei, with the villa of Diomedes on the right and Tomb HGE37 on the left
Signed with initials and dated Pompei 4/10/71
Oil on canvas laid down on cardboard - a sketch
20 x 31cm
A typical Grand Tour painting
Marius Bauer (1867-1932)
Arabian woman in the shade
Signed
Oil on canvas
70.5 x 50.5 cm
(SOLD)
Marius Bauer (1867-1932)
Oriëntal dancers
Signed
Watercolor on paper
43 x 57 cm
Literature: Andre Kraayenga, Marius Bauer, 2007, p.104 (illustrated)
Jan van Beers (1852-1927)
A Bacchante
Signed
Oil on panel
28.5 x 24.5 cm
Wladimir Bielkine (1895-1967)
A Priest in a tropical (Egypt?) landscape
Signed and dated ‘27
Pencil, chalks and watercolor on paper
63 x 42 cm
Bielkine fled Russia in 1918 and roamed via Prague, Berlin, Vienna and Paris to Amsterdam. In 1924 he settled in Haarlem, the Netherlands, where he became illustrator and advertising designer for a.o. the Philips Electronic Company and the Haarlems Dagblad (newspaper)
He also painted and drew free artistic work
In 1928 he exposed in the Waag in Haarlem for the first time. In 1947 he left Holland for Zurich and eventually passed away in Grand Canaria in the summer of 1967 after a very immersive and eventful life
Sigisbert Chretien Bosch Reitz (1860-1938)
Garden statue, Versailles
Signed with monogram
Oil on panel
37.5 x 26 cm
To be dated between 1902-1905
Literature: cf. Rinus Ferdinandusse and Ann Blokland,Bosch Reitz, Amsterdam,2002, p.57 ff
Henk de Court Onderwater (1877-1905)
A self-portrait in cape and top hat
Signed and inscribed Paris
Charcoal and pastel on paper
37 x 26 cm
Pierre Louis Dubourcq (1815-1873)
View of Albano
Signed, dated and inscribed Albano Aug.’43
Oil on paper laid down on canvas
49.5 x 63.5 cm
Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager (1814-1879)
View of the Bosphorus
Signed and indistinctly dated
Oil on panel
22 x 41 cm
Ferdinand Erfmann (1901-1968)
Village in a tropical landscape, Indonesia
Signed and inscribed Batavia
Oil on canvas
40.5 x 51 cm
Erfmann visited Indonesia only once in 1938
European School, circa 1900
Satyr
Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolor on paper
33 x 25 cm
Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming (1837-1924)
The Lily Shore, Tricomalee, Sri Lanka: study of Palmyra Palms with young Bayan trees looking to Fort Frederick
Signed with initials and dated oct.8 ‘73
Watercolor on paper
36 x 50 cm
Fort Frederick is also known as Fort Tricomalee
Tricomalee is the most popular east coast seaside hamlet in Sri Lanka, famous for its powdery sandy beach and turquois blue shallow waters
(SOLD)
August Le Gras (1864-1915)
The desert of Chellala, Algeria
Signed, dated nov.1892 and annotated
Oil on canvas
38 x 61 cm
The Chellala Desert in Algeria lies in the district of El Bayadh in the Ksour mountains
(SOLD)
Gustav von Haugk (1804-1861)
View from a grotto toward the Faraglioni, Capri, Italy
Signed and dated 1834
Oil on paper laid down on board
26 x 39 cm
Eduard Hildebrandt (1817/18-1869)
Cleopatra’s needle, Alexandria, Egypt
Signed
Pencil and watercolor on paper
25 x 36 cm
The needle was a present in 1819 to Great Britain but remained in Alexandria until 1877. It stands now on the Victorian Embankment, London
William Hunter (c.1890-1967)
Building a house
Signed and dated Ana 1929
Oil on panel
20.5 x 30.5 cm
(SOLD)
Johan Daniel Koelman (1831-1857)
The Harvest
Signed and dated fec 53
Pen and black and brown ink and watercolor on paper
27.5 x 47 cm
Leon Leblanc (1828-1900)
A French soldier smoking his pipe and his dog, Crimea
Signed and dated 1856
Pastel on canvas
41 x 31.5 cm
(SOLD)
Vincenzo Loria (1850-1939)
An archeologist working in The Peristyle of the House of the Hunt VII.4.48, Pompei
Signed and inscribed Napoli
Watercolor on paper
36.5 x 55 cm
Gill Julien Matthey (1889-1956)
A Tattooed Woman, North Africa
Signed
Oil on panel
35.5 x 27 cm
(SOLD)
Antonia Elisabeth ‘Ony’ ter Meulen (1886-1979)
An Oriental man wearing a Fez
Signed
Oil on canvas
118 x 81 cm, unframed
(SOLD)
Jan Cornelis Neervoort (1863-1940)
In the library of Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp
Signed and annotated 'Plantijn-Moretus' and 'aan mijn vriend Hector Broeckx'
Oil on panel
18 x 24 cm
In a period frame
North European School, second half 19th century
Bacchus
Annotated in Swedish on the reverse
Oil on metal
Diam. 7 cm
Frans David Oerder (1867-1944)
Coconut rope weaver, South Africa
Signed, and indistinctly inscribed on the reverse
Oil on canvas
38 x 23.5 cm
After Praxiteles, late 19th century
Hermes and the Infant Dionysos
White marble
h. 45 cm
The original, excavated in 1877, is in the Archeological Museum, Olympia, Greece
(SOLD)
Louise Josephine Sarazin de Belmont (1790-1871)
View of Capo Sant’Alessio near Taormina, Sicily
Signed with initials and dated 1825, and inscribed Sicile, Capo S.Alessio (Messina) route de Messina a Catane on the reverse
Oil on paper
19.5 x 14 cm
Painted during her first journey to Italy from 1824-1826
Attributed to Franciscus Smuglevitch (1745-1807)
Portrait of the dwarf Baiocco, Rome
Oil on paper laid down on canvas
28 x 20 cm
Executed circa 1790-1800
Attributed to Abraham Teerlink (1776-1857)
A figure resting in front of a Roman portico
Pencil and black chalk on paper
40 x 25.5 cm
Pierre Tetar van Elven (1828-1908)
A moment of rest in front of a forge, San Pellegrino Terme, Lombardy Italy
Signed and inscribed San Pellegrino Lombardie
Watercolor on paper
26 x 36 cm
Tetar van Elven, who left for Italy in 1853, became court painter to King Victor Emanuel II (1820-1878) of Italy in 1861
Between 1881-1908 the artist lived in Milan where he also died
(SOLD)
Friedrich Thöming (1802-1873)
A view at Villa Mazziotti from a grotto near Posilippo
Signed, oil on paper
14 x 10.5 cm
Pierre de Vaucleroy (1892-1980)
On board of the passenger ship Elisabethville from Antwerp to Congo
Signed and darted 1926, and signed and dated and annotated Sous l’ Equateur on the
reverse
Oil on canvas laid down on board
30 x 40 cm
Literature: Jean Pierre de Rijcke, Pierre de Vaucleroy,1992, p.67
The Belgian artist Pierre de Vaucleroy has been one of the most renowned so-called Africanists of his time (cf. Lynne Thornton, Les Africanistes, 1990, pp.116, 118, 119, 123, 331)
(SOLD)
Hans Völcker (1865-1944)
The Table Mountain, Cape Town, seen from the Bloubergstrand
Signed
Watercolor and chalks on paper
56 x 75 cm
The artist travelled South Africa in 1905-06
Carl Wuttke (1849-1927)
The Ancient Greek Theatre, Taormina, Sicily
Signed
Oil on panel
15 x 22 cm