Inventory

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

(SOLD)

Adolphe Cnops (1834-1911)

Lions resting

Signed and dated Gent ‘93

Oil on canvas

51 x 71 cm

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

Robert Crommelyck (1895-1968)

A Muse

Signed and dated ‘18

Watercolor and bodycolor on paper

19 x 11.5 cm

Willem Dooyewaard (1892-1980)

Ballet Dancers

Signed and dated 1966

Oil on canvas

50.5 x 60.5 cm

Henri Louis Dupray (1841-1909)

A grenadiers (tambour) uniform jacket

Annotated on the reverse

Watercolor on paper

29 x 24 cm

To be dated in 1889

Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager (1814-1879)

View of the Bosphorus

Signed and indistinctly dated

Oil on panel

22 x 41 cm

Johan Dykstra (1896-1978)

'Blauwborgje'

Signed

Oil on canvas

60 x 80 cm

Painted between 1953-55

According to Dykstra 'Blauwborgje' is the place where Groninger Painting (De Ploeg) was born

Johan Dykstra (1896-1978)

View of the village Thesinge, province of Groningen

Signed

Oil on canvas

50 x 70 cm

Painted in the 1950’s

The painting represents the Luddestraat in the village of Thesinge, 10 kilometers from the city of Groningen. The house with the bleached laundry has been destroyed because of a lightning strike in 1970

George d‘Espagnat (1870-1950)

Flowers in a vase and apples

Signed with initials

Oil on canvas

55.5 x 46.5 cm

Provenance: sale Sotheby’s New York, 6 October 1998, lot 40 (unsold)

This painting is probably included in the catalogue on the artist life and work by
a.o. Jean-Dominique Jacquemond, 2016

European School, 20th century

Great yellow-crested cockatoos

Indistinctly signed Moillil (?)

Oil on board, in an original bamboo frame

90 x 105 cm

(SOLD)

European School, circa 1900

Satyr

Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolor on paper

33 x 25 cm

Willem de Famars Testas (1834-1896)

Study of a Cactus

Oil on paper

31 x 40.5 cm

Provenance: Collection I.Q van Regteren Altena

The artist is mainly known for his watercolors depicting the Orient

He made a journey to Egypt from 1858-1860

This oil sketch may have been executed during this trip

French/Belgian School, circa 1870

Put on gloves - a study

Oil on canvas

33 x 29.5 cm

(SOLD)

Pieter Gaal (1769-1819) (after Hendrik Willem Schweickhardt)

A pig in repose

Black and red chalks on paper

15.5 x 21.5 cm

To be dated 1786-88

Gaal was a pupil of Schweickhardt

Compare sale Old Master and British Works on Paper, Sotheby’s New York, January 2023,lot 371

Jean Leon Henri Gouweloos (1868-1943)

The umbrella

Signed

Oil on canvas laid down on board

48.5 x 38.5 cm

Jan W. Grinwis Plaat Stultjes (1898-1934)

Self portrait

Signed

Watercolor on paper

19.5 x 18.5 cm

To be dated circa 1925/26

Directly from the family of the artist

(SOLD)

Jan W. Grinwis Plaat Stultjes (1898-1934)

The Death

Pencil, pen and ink, colored chalks and watercolor on paper

36.5 x 26.5 cm

To be dated 1924

A costume design for the Elcerlyc play

Willem Gruyter (1817-1880)

View of a Mediterranean bay

Signed twice, and dated 1852 3 februarij on the reverse

Pen and ink, watercolor on paper

7.5 x 13.5 cm

Anthonius Matthieu Guthschmidt (1887-1958)

Racecourse Duindigt, Wassenaar

Signed

Oil on canvas

110 x 225 cm

The painter, educated at the art Academies of Antwerp and the Hague became namely a graphic and advertising artist and designer of letter types. He founded Studio Guthschmidt which still exists

Carlos de Haes (1826-1898)

Cualquiera otro o sea Monte de Ibdes, Spain

Inscribed with title

Pencil on paper

10 x 12 cm

Directly from the family of the artist

Literature: Peter Thoben a.o., Carlos de Haes, Museum Kempenland, (catalogue to exhibition 14 November 1998-10 January 1999), Eindhoven, 1998, p.89 (illustrated)

Josephus Gerardus Hans (1826-1891)

The duck hunt

Signed and dated f.’49

Oil on panel

29 x 43 cm

The artist has been one of the best pupils by the Romantic Master Andries Schelfhout

(SOLD)

Jacoba van Heemskerck van Beest (1876-1923 )

Houses and garden, Domburg

Signed

Oil on canvas

40 x 32.5 cm

To be dated 1908

In Domburg when visiting Marie Tak van Poortvliet in this period the artist spend a lot of time together with Piet Mondriaan, Hart Nibbrig and Jan Toorop from whom she got artistic advises

(SOLD)

Armand Heins (1856-1938)

Lions

Pen, pencil and black and brown ink on paper

Both signed and dated 1912, one inscribed Anvers

16.5 x 19 cm and 16.5 x 19.5 cm

Andre Hennebicq (1836-1904)

Maroc; Type-Juif (portrait of a Jewish man from Morocco)

Signed and annotated

Oil on panel

26.5 x 17.5 cm

In 1884 this Belgian artist travelled Morocco

Stanislaw Holecek (1900-1976)

Every cloud has a silver lining

Signed and signed again and inscribed on an old label on the reverse

Oil on cardboard

34 x 23 cm

Martin Hubrecht (1892-1965)

A cloudy landscape

Signed with monogram

Charcoal on paper

33 x 48 cm

Martin Hubrecht used to be a member of the so-called Groupe de Mai, painters from the Alsace

Many of his works are in the Musee d’art modern et contemporain, Strassbourg, France

In 2007 the Musee historique in Hageuenau, France, organized a retrospective of his works

Italian School, first half 19th century

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Naples, Italy

Oil on canvas

56 x 72.5 cm

Nico Jungmann  (1872-1935)

Portrait of a young girl

Signed with monogram, and signed again and dated 1901, and inscribed on the reverse

Pastel on paper

42 x 32 cm

Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer (1839-1902)

Studies of hands and Arms (2)

Oil on canvas

26 x 17.5 cm and 20 x 22 cm

Nicaise De Keyser (1813-1887)

The Poet

Signed

Pen and ink on paper

17.5 x 13.5 cm

Pyke Koch (1901-1991)

Voetballers II

Signed with initials

Tempera on paper laid down on board

23 x 30 cm

Provenance: Gift of Mr and Mrs. Theodore Koch to the Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota; sale Christie’s Amsterdam, 1990, lot 266; Drs Loek Brons BV, Amsterdam; where purchased by the present owner, the Netherlands

Exhibited: Utrecht, 1958; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, 1995, p.231

Literature: Prof. Dr Carel Blotkamp, Pyke Koch, Utrecht, 1972, p.32 (illus.) and p.172 (illus. no 62); catalogue to the Rotterdam exhibition, 1995

Carlos Ruano Llopis (1878-1950)

The bull wins

Signed

Oil on canvas, laid down on board

41.5 x 32.5 cm

Luigi Loir (1845-1916)

Les Gymnastes

Signed with initials

17.5 x 10 cm

This is one of the trade cards designed by Loir for luxury good stores around 1885

Pieter van Loon (1801-1873)

Street view of Utrecht (Vismarkt?)

Signed and dated Utrecht 1863

Pen and brown ink on paper

14.5 x 23.5 cm

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

Adrien-Jean le Mayeur de Merpres (1880-1958)

Dhibouti soir; children on a beach

Signed and annotated

Charcoal on paper

21 x 27 cm

Painted in 1928

Literature: cf. Jop Ubbens, Cathinka Huizing, Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merpres: painter-traveller, Wijk en Aalburg, 1995, pp 53-56

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915)

Low tide; A Bomschuit and fisherfolk on a beach, Scheveningen

Signed

Watercolor on paper

55 x 37 cm

This watercolor is included in the Archive of the Mesdag Documentatie Stichting under number 3030.15 (cf letter by Johan Poort dated 5-12-95)

John Miller (19th/20th century)

The Dittisham Ferry on the Dart, South Devon, England

Signed, inscribed with title on the stretcher

Oil on canvas

57.5 x 92 cm

In an original frame

Since early times a ferry must have existed between Dittisham and Greenway

The horse ferry was a float propelled by two extra long oats and very strong men as seen in this painting

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

Willem van Nieuwenhoven (1879-1973)

Portrait of a bearded man

Signed and dated 1916

Oil on board laid down on panel

17 x 12 cm

It has been suggested that the sitter is the father of the painter

(SOLD)

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

Victor Prouve (1858-1943)

Pele-Mele of Centaurs five drawings and one lithograph

Black and brown ink on paper

30.5 x 51 cm

In an original decorated Art Deco (Nancy?) frame

Provenance: The archaeologist, collector and industrialist Saint-Just Pecquart (1881-1944); Sale Cherbourg, 24 September 2001; Laura Pecheur, Exposition Victor Prouve, Paris, 4 December 2001; Private Collection, the Netherlands, 2004-2022

These works are preliminary studies for 22 engravings in the book Les Centaurs by Andre Lichtenberger, 1924, Paris, Cres, Nancy

Prouve was an important trailblazer for the Nancy School of Fine Arts where he became director between 1919-1940

He also is known as a designer for the Daum brothers and Galle

Attributed to Jan van Ravenswaay (1789-1869)

Portrait of Peter Paul Rubens

Oil on paper laid down on panel

12.5 x 11.5 cm

Provenance: Collection Cornelis Ploos van Amstel Knoef

This work is probably after a print by Paulus Pontius

Jaroslav Provaznik (1890-1925)

Old portico in historic Peking (Bejing)

Signed and dated Peking 1920

Watercolor on paper

19.5 x 22.5 cm

Nicolaas Johannes Roosenboom (1805-1880)

Portrait of a young Scottish gentleman

Signed

Oil on panel

17.5 x 15 cm

Painted in 1835

The artist, one of the most talented pupils of the Romantic landscape painter Schelfhout, travelled Scotland in 1835

Petrus van Schendel (1806-1870)

A young market girl with an empty basket

Signed

Oil on panel

17.5 x 20 cm

Provenance: Christie’s Amsterdam, 30 October 1991, lot 221

Franz Wilhelm Schiertz (1813-1887)

Ruin of the Monastery of Selje, Norway (?)

Signed, oil on paper

24.5 x 31.5 cm

Schiertz was a pupil of J.C. Dahl (1788-1857)

Jan Sluijters (1881-1967)

Portrait Mrs. E. Kuyper-Sluijters

Signed with initials, and indistinctly inscribed in pencil

Pencil, black chalk, pen and ink and watercolor on paper

31.5 x 22.5 cm

Provenance: E.J. van Wisselingh&Co., Amsterdam, inv.no. A 9466

Jan Sluijters (1881-1967)

Reclining nude; and a sketch in pencil of a reclining nude verso

Pencil and watercolor on paper

26.5 x 38.5 cm

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

(SOLD)

Cornelis Springer (1817-1891)

View of Hindeloopen in summer

Signed and dated 1875, and signed again, authenticated, titled and dated again by the artist on a label on the reverse

Oil on panel

50 x 40 cm

Literature: W.Laanstra, C.Springer, Utrecht, 1984, no75-8 (illustrated) Arnold Ligthart, Door het oog van Cornelis Springer, 2015-2016, pp.143-144 (illustration 186 as a sublime panel)

Petrus Henricus Theodorus Tetar van Elven (1828-1908)

The Carpet mender

Signed

Oil on panel

23.5 x 18 cm

The artist travelled to Tunisia in 1866

Petrus Henricus Theodorus Tetar van Elven (1828-1908)

A view of probably Cabo de Espichel, Portugal, with the Sanctuary of Our Lady on top of the hill

Signed and inscribed

Watercolor on paper

27 x 46.5 cm

Cabo de Espichel is situated on the Western coast of Sesimbra in the district Setubal, about 40 miles from Lisbon

Friedrich Thöming (1802-1873)

A view at Villa Mazziotti from a grotto near Posilippo

Signed, oil on paper

14 x 10.5 cm

Julius Theodor Tuxen (1820-1883)

An Amazon

Signed and dated 1859

Oil on canvas

26.5 x 22.5 cm

Gustave Vanaise (1854-1902)

Portrait of a man

Signed

Oil on canvas

46 x 38 cm

To be dated circa 1886

Compare with the painting by Vanaise in the Museum M. at Leuven, Belgium

Eugene Verboeckhoven (1798-1881)

Young Goats

Signed with initials

Oil on paper laid down on panel

22.5 x 25 cm

Victor Alfred Paul Vignon (1847-1909)

Sous les saules (Under the willows)

Signed

Oil on panel

16 x 24 cm

Provenance: Galerie an der Konigsallee, Düsseldorf

Vignon was a pupil of Corot, as you can see in this very picture, and a good friend of the Impressionist painters Renoir and Pisarro

He went on to exhibit alongside the Impressionist from 1880-1886

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

Antoon van Welie (1866-1956)

Remembrance (Herinnering)

Signed and dated ft.1902, and inscribed with title

Pastel on paper

45 x 32.5 cm

Janus de Winter (1882-1951)

Aurora

Signed with initials

Pastel on paper

31.5 x 48 cm

To be dated circa 1917-20

Literature: Ine Gevers, Janus de Winter, 1985, cf.p. 115, illus.85

Hendrik Jan Wolter (1873-1952)

Boulevard d’Anglais, Nice, France

Signed and inscribed with title and numbered on the reverse

Oil on panel

21.5 x 28 cm

Provenance: AAG Auctions, Amsterdam, 7 June 2010, lot 16

Carl Wuttke (1849-1927)

The Ancient Greek Theatre, Taormina, Sicily

Signed

Oil on panel

15 x 22 cm

Agatha Zethraeus (1872-1966)

Carriages at the Rembrandtplein, Amsterdam

Signed

Oil on board

28 x 35 cm