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
Wobbe Alkema (1900-1984)
Composition in red and black (1925-1958)
Signed
Woodcut in colors on paper
15.5 x 10 cm
Multiple print from 1958
(SOLD)
Anonymus, circa 1800
A crawly creature
Pen and ink and watercolor on paper
8.5 x 11 cm
Alexander Hugo Bakker-Korff (1824-1882)
La Romance
Signed and dated lower left: A H Bakker Korff.69. and with the artist's seal and authenticated by the artist "Le sousomé declare que le/tableau representant 'la Romance'/est peint par lui/Leiden la 28 Avril 1889" on a label on the reverse
Oil on panel
28.5 by 38 cm
Provenance: Jhr. Alfred Boreel, The Hague, by 1903 (according to a label on the reverse); Anonymus sale, Amsterdam, P. Brandt, 28 November 1967, lot 39a (for 62.000 Dfl); Anonymus sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 19 April 2005, lot 250 (sold for 60.000 EUR); Purchased at the above sale by the family of the present owners
Exhibited: London, Guildhall Art Gallery, Examples of the Dutch School, 28 April-25 July 1903, cat. no. 22
Literature: E. Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous pays par un groupe d'ecrivains specialists francais et etrangers, Paris 1948, p. 355, reproduced
Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Catalogus van de schilderijen en tekeningen, Leiden 1983, p. 66, cat. no. 10 0 1,: "Met het schilderij La Romance uit 1869 verwierf de schilder in Brussel de Leopoldorde". Another version with the same subject matter by the artist from a later date (1880) and considerably smaller in size (17 by 22.2 cm) is currently in the collection of the Lakenhal
(SOLD)
Auguste Baud-Bovy (1848-1899)
Portrait of the Spanish writer Antonio Sawa (1862-1909)
Signed and annotated Paris
Pencil and charcoal on paper
24 x 18.5 cm
To be dated 1892
Literature: V. Anker, Auguste Baud-Bovy, Berne, 1991, p.233
Although the artist is mainly a landscape painter he also executes portraits of the literary,political and artistic circles
Baud-Bovy was inspired by the great Gustave Courbet
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Marius Bauer (1867-1932)
The Ghats, Varanasi (Benares), India
Signed
Oil on canvas
100 x 130 cm
Provenance: E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, inv.no. S9277; Kunsthandel Borzo, Den Bosch, 1978
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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
Pierre Beppi-Martin (1862-1954)
Elegant Women on a bridge, Venice
Signed
Pencil, black calk and colored chalks on paper
26.5 x 19.5 cm
To be dated circa 1903
Beppi-Martin was good friends with Emile Bernard and Charles Martel
They travelled together to Cairo and Italy and inspired each other
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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
Barend Blankert (b.1941)
Apples
Signed on the reverse
Oil on panel
15.5 x 19.5 cm
Probably painted in the first half of the 1980’s
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David Bles (1821-1899)
Une femme aisee occupee a rien faire
Gesigneerd en gedateerd 29 juny ’46
Pen, zwarte en bruine inkt op papier
12 x 22.5 cm
(SOLD)
Johannes Bosboom (1817-1891)
A church interior with a predicant on the pulpit
Signed
Oil on panel
19.5 x 26 cm
(SOLD)
Eugen Bracht (1842-1921)
A Glacier (shores of oblivion)
Signed
Oil on canvas laid down on panel
24.5 x 33.5 cm
This oil sketch resembles pretty much the so-called Gestade des Vergessenheit series.
Between 1889-1916 Bracht painted about eight versions of which the prototype is in the Hessisches Museum, Darmstadt, Germany
(SOLD)
Leon Georges Carre (1878-1942)
The Parisian cab
Signed and dated Paris Janvier 1908
Oil on panel
37.5 x 45.5 cm
(SOLD)
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
Honore Gaspard Delaroche (1804-1884)
Following the drum
Signed and dated ‘78
Oil on panel
16.5 x 23.5 cm
Provenance: in the family of the present owner since 1995
The artist exposed at the Salon in Paris between 1836-1868
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Hippolyte Camille Delpy (1842-1910)
An elegant lady with a parasol, the Forest of Fontainebleau
Signed
Oil on canvas
47 x 63 cm
Probably painted between 1875-1880
Provenance: with Kunsthandel Douwes, Amsterdam where purchased by the present owner in 1971
Delpy was a friend of both Corot and Daubigny
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Ted (Theodore) van Dijk (b.1948)
Embossed Sjablone, serie IV, number 3
Signed, titled and dated 1984 on a label on the reverse
Perspex
100 x 100 cm
Comparable works by the artist are in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam and Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof (1866-1924)
Fishes
Signed with monogram
Oil on canvas
36.5 x 48 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
Otto Eerelman (1839-1926)
Clown
Signed
Watercolor on paper
27 x 18 cm
Probably painted behind the scenes at Circus Carre
See: Harry J. Kraaij, Otto Eerelman, 2012, pp.95-100
(SOLD)
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, circa 1900
Satyr
Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolor on paper
33 x 25 cm
Johannes Hendrik Eversen (1906-1995)
A still life with a bottle, oysters, a glass and a slice of bread
Signed and dated 1963
Oil on canvas
49.5 x 70 cm
(SOLD)
Johannes Hendrik Eversen (1906-1995)
A still life with a lobster and a lemon on a pewter plate
Signed and dated 1962
Oil on canvas
51 x 71 cm
(SOLD)
French/Belgian School, circa 1870
Put on gloves - a study
Oil on canvas
33 x 29.5 cm
(SOLD)
Kenne Gregoire (b.1951)
Entrée; a breakfast still life
Signed and dated ‘07
Acrylic on canvas
145 x 84 cm
Provenance: Galerie Mokum, Amsterdam, inv. no. 10421
(SOLD)
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
Stacha Halpern (1919-1969)
Abstract Composition
Signed and dated ‘56
Oil on canvas
9 x 22.5 cm
(SOLD)
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
Christian Henning (1741-1822)
A water landscape with a barnacle goose, a domestic goose, a red breasted merganser, a Polish chicken and a shelduck
Signed and dated 1795 on the reverse
Pen and black ink and watercolor on paper
27.5 x 40.5 cm
(SOLD)
Jaap Hillenius (1934-1999)
Inner structure
Signed and dated 1983, and signed and dated again and inscribed with title on the reverse
Oil on canvas
47.5 x 47.5 cm
Provenance: Collection d’Art, Amsterdam, December 1983 (cf. a copy of the original invoice)
(SOLD)
Jaap Hillenius (1934-1999)
Portrait
Signed and dated 1983, signed and dated again and inscribed with title on the stretcher
Oil on canvas
43.5 x 47.5 cm
Provenance: Collection d’Art, Amsterdam, December 1983 (cf. a copy of the original invoice)
(SOLD)
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
Wilhelmus Jacobus Kerremans (1828-1889)
The disturbed meal
Signed
Oil on panel
29 x 23 cm
The painter was clearly influenced by the master of candlelight scenes Petrus van Schendel
(SOLD)
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803-1862)
A wooded landscape with cattle and farmers in summer
Signed and dated 1853, signed and dated again and authenticated and inscribed with title on the reverse
Oil on panel
69.5 x 94.5 cm
Provenance: with Galerie Heineman, München, inv.no. 8519; with Richard Green, London
Literature: F. Gorissen, 1962, 53/68
Johannes Jacobus van Laar (1886-1967)
Sunflower in a vase
Signed and dated okt.1912
Pen and ink and watercolor on paper
33.5 x 26 cm
(SOLD)
Luigi Loir (1845-1916)
La Seine et Notre Dame
Signed
Oil on panel
11 x 14 cm
Literature: Noe Willer, Luigi Loir; de la Belle Epoque a la Publicite, catalogue raisonne, n.d ( 2004?) Vol.1, p.115, no.131
(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
Maximilien Luce (1858-1941)
Les Usines Lefranc, Issy, France
Signed
Oil on cardboard
27 x 41 cm
Provenance Sale Hotel Drouot, Paris, 22 November 1930, lot 117 (collection Laporte); Kunsthandel G.J. Nieuwenhuizen Segaar, the Hague
The factory Leblanc & Co. fabricated paintings materials a.o. varnish, paint and lacquer starting in 1897 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the south west suburb area of Paris
(SOLD)
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
Marc Mulders (b.1958)
Persian garden
Signed and dated 2015 and inscribed with title on the reverse
Oil on canvas
240 x 360 cm
Jaap Nanninga (1904-1962)
Composition
Signed and dated ‘59
Pastel and mixed media on paper
65 x 50 cm
Provenance: directly from the artist to the present owner
(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
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
Adri Pieck (1894-1982)
Pomona: Allegory of Vegetarianism
Signed
Pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor on paper
31 x 19 cm
Possibly a design for a poster
(SOLD)
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
Willem Roelofs (1822-1897)
Cows in a meadow - a sketch
Oil on panel
18 x 32 cm
(SOLD)
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
Jos Rovers (1893-1976)
En plein air
Signed and dated '46
Oil on canvas
108 x 120 cm
(SOLD)
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
Johan Frederik Scherrewitz (1868-1951)
Donkeys on a beach
Signed
Oil on panel
10.5 x 20.5 cm
The subject of donkeys on a beach was probably first painted in 1862 by Elchanon Verveer (1826-1900). Later Anton Mauve (cf. his painting from 1877 in Museum Mesdag, the Hague) and Willem Maris (between 1864-1867), both painters from the Hague School, executed this lovely motive several times too
(SOLD)
Jan Sluijters (1881-1957)
View of the Vierwaldstattersee, Switzerland
Signed
Oil on canvas
55 x 65.5 cm
Provenance: Collection P.P. Rijkens, Brockham Park, Betchworth, Surrey, England, inv. No. 182 (according to a label on the stretcher)
Probably painted in 1929 when acquired by the famous collector Paul Rijkens (1888-1965), Surrey
(cf. exhibition Museum Alkmaar, Collectie Paul Rijkens, 2020)
A comparable work by Sluijters, an elegant women on a terras at the Vierwaldstatten Meer, was purchase by Henri van Abbe and is now in the van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
We like to thank Kees van der Geer, guest-curator and author of the Alkmaar catalogue on the collection of Paul Rijkens, in helping to describe this painting
(SOLD)
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 (Corneille) van Spaendonck (1756-1839)
Hisbiscus and a butterfly
Signed, oil on panel
28.5 x 21.5 cm
Provenance: Paris, Studio sale Cornelis van Spaendonck, 28 February 1840
Monaco, sale Sotheby’s, 30 June 1995, lot 72
(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)
Frans Stamkart (1874-1947)
De bruid
Gesigneerd met initialen rechtsonder
Olieverf op doek
50 x 35 cm
Dit schilderij van Stamkart is een exceptioneel en zeldzaam werk
Een vergelijking met werk van de beroemde Franse symbolist Odilon Redon gaat hier zeker op, zeker in ogenschouw nemend dat zij ooit samen in Utrecht exposeerden
Zowel het Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (Salome en Danseres uit de collectie van Gerard van Wezel) als het Kunstmuseum te Den Haag (Avondgang) bezitten werk van hem
In de catalogus Kunstenaren der idee; symbolistische tendenzen in Nederland ca. 1880-1930 (Haags Gemeentemuseum 1978) wordt Stamkart uitvoerig opgevoerd tussen tijdgenoten als Toorop, de Neree tot Babberich of Johan Thorn Prikker
(SOLD)
Romain Steppe (1859-1927)
Après midi sur l’Escaut: afternoon on the Scheldt river
Signed, and inscribed with title on an old label on the reverse
Oil on panel
16 x 18 cm
Provenance: Christie’s Amsterdam, 2 May 1990, lot 80
(SOLD)
Alfred Stevens (1823-1906)
Treport, Normandy
Signed
Oil on panel
41 x 32.5 cm
From 1881-1883 Stevens, "peintre de l'amour et de la femme", stayed at Le Havre financially supported by the famous Parisian Art Gallery Georg Petit for a yearly 50.000 Ffr.
From 1890-1902 Stevens undertook several artistic trips to Normandy in order to paint more seascapes
(SOLD)
Sofa Teshigahara (1900-1979)
Abstract composition
Signed with the artists stamp
A two-leaf folded screen
175 x 172 cm
The Japanese Avant Garde artist Teshigahara is founder of a Ikebana (flower arrangement) school. His works are in several museums in Japan and the United States. He became friends with Andy Warhol in Japan in the 1970’s. Warhol made a screen print portrait of Teshigahara in 1974
(SOLD)
Pierre 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
Willem Bastiaan Tholen (1860-1931)
The Grote Waterpoort, Delfzijl
Signed, and inscribed with title on the stretcher
Oil on canvas
37 x 46.5 cm
Painted 1897/98
Exhibited: Rotterdam, Kunstkring, 1906, no.67
(SOLD)
Friedrich Thöming (1802-1873)
A view at Villa Mazziotti from a grotto near Posilippo
Signed, oil on paper
14 x 10.5 cm
Jan Toorop (1858-1928)
Landscape
Signed and dated 1924
Charcoal on paper
20.5 x 21 cm
(SOLD)
Walter Vaes (1882-1958)
A swan in a canal, Bruges, Belgium
Signed with monogram
Watercolor on paper
13 x 22 cm
Painted circa 1905
(SOLD)
Gustave Vanaise (1854-1902)
A fashionable beauty
Signed
Oil on panel
24 x 17.5 cm
Painted circa 1885
The artist is from Ghent, Belgium
(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
Friedrich Voltz (1817-1886)
Dogs; dachshund
Signed, and with aus dem Nachlasse des F.Voltz stamp on the reverse
Oil on canvas laid down on board
12 x 23 cm
Joseph van de Wall Perne (1877-1941)
View of the Westerdok, Amsterdam, with the Posthoorn church in the background
Signed, and signed again and inscribed with title on the reverse
Oil on cardboard
18 x 36 cm
In an original period frame
(SOLD)
Froukje Wartena (1855-1933)
The little Professor
Signed and signed again with initials and titled on the reverse
Oil on panel
26.5 x 21.5 cm
(SOLD)
Antoon van Welie (1866-1956)
Remembrance (Herinnering)
Signed and dated ft.1902, and inscribed with title
Pastel on paper
45 x 32.5 cm
Anthonie Jacobus van Wijngaerdt (1808-1882)
Avondschemering; Twilight
Signed, dated 1880, and inscribed with titel on the reverse
Oil on panel
8 x 5 cm
In an original period frame
(SOLD)
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