Inventory

Frantz Charlet (1862-1928)

In love with a little smoker, Volendam

Signed

Oil on panel

50 x 40 cm

The Belgian painter Charlet was one of the founders and a member of the famous Art Group Les XX (1882)

In 1883 he travelled with Theo van Rijsselberghe to Algeria and Morocco in search for new light and different subject matter. He then in 1885 he visited in the company of a.o. the renowned American painter Whistler the villages of Volendam and Marken in Holland

Henri George Chartier (1859-1924)

An elegant gentleman

Signed, dated and annotated a l’ami Berton 1890

Oil on panel

33 x 16.5 cm

It might be a portrait of his colleague and friend Armand Breton (1854-1917). Both artists were trained and artistically educated in the studio of Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) in Paris

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 Crommelynck (1895-1968)

Femme fatale

Signed and dated ‘18

Pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour on paper

17 x 11.5 cm

Crommelynck is an artist from Liege, Belgium
Many of his works are in the Musee des Beaux-Arts Liege

From September 2023 until the end of February 2025 in the Gallery Noir at Museum the Bovarie in Liege an exposition was held of his drawings, a donation directly from the family of the artist

Renee Csaky (active 1930-60’s)

A Mediterranean village in summer

Signed and dated ’57

Oil on canvas

38.5 x 65 cm

She was the daughter of the renowed Hungarian avant-garde sculptor Joseph Csaky (1888-1971)

Co Daniels-Chevallier (1880-1951)

A monkey (macaque?)

Signed

Black, brown and colored chalks on paper

58 x 45 cm

Between 1930-1941 she frequently worked at Artis

Some of her works are in the Artis Collection

William Degouve de Nuncques (1867-1935)

Hilly landscape in Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

Signed with initials and dated ’10

Oil on cardboard

45 x 70 cm

Emile Delrue (1878-1928)

African Woman holding a votive figurine

Signed

Pen and ink on paper

24 x 14 cm

Willem Dooyewaard (1892-1980)

Ballet Dancers

Signed and dated 1966

Oil on canvas

50.5 x 60.5 cm

Simon Durand (1838-1896)

Down!

Signed with initials

Brown ink on paper

23 x 17.5 cm

Otto Eerelman (1839-1926)

The Racecourse, Brussels

Signed and dated 1874 Bruxelles

Pencil on paper

34 x 82 cm

We like to thank Harry J. Kraay, author on the Eerelman monography, for his entry on the drawing which I am delighted to send by mail if asked for

Jan van Essen (1854-1936)

The Art Lover

Signed and dated 1891

Oil on panel

21.5 x 18 cm

Emile Barthelemy Fabry (1865-1966)

Femme fatale

Signed twice and dated 1925

Charcoal on paper

47.5 x 36 cm

Leon Victor Fontan (1884-1965)

An elegant man

Signed, and signed again and inscribed Rue Beethoven 17 Paris

Oil on canvas

82 x 108 cm

In an original period frame

Fontan illustrated the first covers for the books of Arsene Lupin

French School, second half 19th century

A pair of elegant fur-lined slippers

Oil on panel

10 x 15 cm

French (Lyon) School, 19th century

Peaches

Pastel on paper

20.5 x 30 cm

Provenance: private collection, purchased with Huguette Beres, Paris

Numa-Francois Gillet (1868-1940)

Ariadne on Naxos holding a statuette of the Minotaur

Signed

Oil on canvas

41 x 33 cm

To be dated circa 1900

Gillet was a pupil of a.o. William Adolphe Bouguereau and a close friend to the French symbolist Armand Point

Henri Harpignies (1819-1916)

Les Eyzies, Dordogne

Signed and dated 1898

Watercolour on paper

25.5 x 35 cm

Henri Harpignies (1819-1916)

Paysage d'Automne

Signed and dated '77

Watercolour on paper

21 x 30 cm

Provenance: Stoppenbach & Delestre, London

Henri Harpignies (1819-1916)

La Vallee de Loire

Signed and dated '81

Watercolour on paper

20 x 28 cm

Provenance: Stoppenbach & Delestre, London

Piet van der Hem (1885-1961)

Amazone in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris

Signed and inscribed with title

Black chalk and bodycolor on grayish paper

25.5 x 32.5 cm

To be dated 1909/10 when the artist stayed in Paris

Charles Marie Martin Hubrecht (1892-1965)

A cloudy landscape

Signed with monogram

Charcoal on paper

33 x 48.5 cm

Between 1922-1934 he was a member of the so-called Groupe de Mai, a group of painters from the Alsace

Le Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg owns the largest collection of his works

In 2007 the Historical Museum of Haguenau organised a retrospective exhibition of his works

Italian School, first half 19th century

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Naples, Italy

Oil on canvas

56 x 72.5 cm

Italian School (second half 19th century)

Hands, one holding a pencil (?)

Oil on two sheets of paper

23.5 x 21.5 cm

Italian School (second half 19th century)

The hand of the framemaker

Oil on paper, octogonal

20.5 x 22 cm

Albert Jarach (1874-1962)

The Hat Box, Boite a Chapeau

Signed

Pencil and watercolour on paper

30.5 x 24.5 cm

Floris Jespers (1889-1965)

A group of Congolese Women

Signed

Oil on panel

33.5 x 46.5 cm

Provenance: Private collection, Belgium

From his so-called Congolese period which ran from the 1950’s to his death in 1965

Tinus de Jongh (1885-1942)

View of the Dam with 'Naatje', Amsterdam, on a rainy day

Signed and dated 1912

Watercolor and bodycolor on paper

40 x 50 cm

A very comparable watercolor by the artist is located in the Atlas Dreesmann, Stadsarchief Amsterdam

After an artistic career in Amsterdam de Jongh emigrated to South Africa in 1921 where he became and even more renowned artist

Eugeen Joors (1850-1910)

Portrait (selfportrait?) of a bearded man

Signed

Oil on canvas

33.5 x 23.5 cm, in a period frame

Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer (1839-1902)

Studies of hands and Arms (2)

Oil on canvas

26 x 17.5 cm and 20 x 22 cm

Willem van Konijnenburg (1868-1943)

Falcon

Signed with initials

Pencil and coloured chalks on paper

14 x 9.5 cm. Unframed

From a Dutch private collection

To be dated circa 1924

Literature: cf. Mieke Rijnders, Willem van Konijnenburg, Leonardo van de Lage Landen, 2008, pp.318, illustrations 192 and 193

Victor Lecomte (1856-1920)

An elegant paintress - a sketch

Signed

Oil on cardboard

16.5 x 12 cm

Maurice Levis (1860-1940)

Les Marins de Longpre

Signed

Oil on panel

14 x 24 cm

Theo Lohmann (1880-1963)

The open door

Signed

Pen and ink on paper

14 x 8 cm

To be dated between 1916-1922

Adriaan Lubbers (1892-1954)

Hudson River

Signed and dated 1930

Oil on canvas

65 x 54 cm

Kees Maks (1876-1967)

De Hoogeschoolrijder Jean Houcke

Signed

Oil on canvas

78.5 x 101 cm

In this painting the legendary circus director Jean Houcke has been portraited whilst riding horse in the arena of Royal Theatre Carre, Amsterdam

Maks was a pupil of George Hendrik Breitner

Amedee Julien Marcel-Clement (1873-1937?)

Dressed up for the theatre

Signed and dated 1907

Oil on canvas

41.5 x 32 cm

With Douwes Fine Art, Amsterdam

Jacob Maris (1837-1899)

The Mill

Signed

Oil on canvas

45 x 32 cm

Provenance: Collection J, Zeeman, Amsterdam

Exhibited : Amsterdam, Arti et Amicitiae, Eere-Tentoonstelling Jacob Maris, 1899

Menno van Meeteren Brouwer (1882-1974)

Aristocracy

Signed and annotated

Pencil, pen and black ink on paper

33 x 20.5 cm

Salvador Mege (1854-1939)

The Niagara Falls

Signed and dated 1887

Oil on canvas

29 x 56.5 cm

The artist originated from Bayonne, France, and made his debut at the Salon, Paris in 1879

In 1887, 1888 and 1889 he traveled both Canada and America where he painted for instance a portrait of sitting Bull in 1889. Next to the work here presented he also executed ice skating on the Schuylkill river, Philadelphia

Piet Meiners (1857-1903)

A still life with red coat, a pipe and a jug

Signed with initials

Oil on paper laid down on cardboard

61 x 42.5 cm

Compare to the stillifes in respectively Museum Kroller-Muller and Museum Gouda

Literature: Moderne Kunstwerken (onder redactie van H.P.Bremmer), Meiners Album, herinnering aan de tentoonstelling te Rotterdam gehouden in de kunstkring, may 1903, first page (illustrated)

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915)

Return of the fishing fleet, Scheveningen

Signed

Oil on canvas

70 x 90 cm

To be dated 1899

Provenance: Kunsthandel Pieter Scheen, The Hague

Literature: Johan Poort, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Artiste peintre a la Haye, 1981, p.140, illus.3.4; Johan Poort,
Hendrik Willem Mesdag; oeuvrecatalogus, 1989, p.341,ilus.21.23

Exhibited: Middelburg, Kunstmuseum, 1925, cat.p.9, illus.53

Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915)

Unloading the Catch, Scheveningen beach

Signed

Watercolour on paper

68 x 46 cm

(SOLD)

Fritz Mock (1867-1919)

Beach fun, Zandvoort

Signed and dated Zandvoort 1913

Watercolor on paper

25 x 34 cm

Marc Mulders (b. 1958)

Persian Garden

Signed and dated 10 04 15

Oil on canvas

260 x 340 cm

To be dated 2015

(SOLD)

Dirk Nijland (1881-1955)

Bird Skeleton

Signed with initials

Pencil and black chalk on paper

31.5 x 48.5 cm

To be dated 1942

Literature: M. Ariens-Volker, Dirk Nijland, 1993, pp 124-125 (illustrated)

(SOLD)

Dirk Nijland (1881-1955)

Hommage to Joseph Conrad

Signed with initials

Black chalk on paper

39 x 27 cm. Unframed

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-English author of mostly famous novels like Heart of Darkness (1899). Remarkable in the foreground of the drawing is the large lithography stone which makes it a typical image motif

A comparable painting by Nijland is in the van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven since 1936.

The artist had a great admiration for Conrad

Pierre Jean van der Ouderaa (1841-1915)

Sloop on Wheels

Signed with initials and dated ‘81

Oil on panel

21.5 x 15.5 cm

David Oyens (1842-1902)

The Studio Visit

Signed

Black chalk on paper

58 x 44 cm

Pieter Oyens (1842-1894) and David Oyens (1842-1902)

Portrait of a fencer; and a portrait of a man

Both signed, one dated ’77 and the other ’75

Watercolors on paper, framed as one

16.5 x 12 cm each

Willem Paerels (1878-1962)

Scheveningen Beach

Signed

Oil on canvas

72 x 74 cm

Exhibited: Brussels, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 3MArch-16 April 1978; Laren, Singer, 27 April-11 June 1978

Jan Frederik Pieter Portielje (1829-1908)

A young Oriental beauty

Signed

Oil on panel

27 x 23.5 cm

Johan Thorn Prikker (1868-1932)

Les Xhorres

Signed with monogram, and signed with monogram again and titled

Chalk on paper

62 x 47.5 cm

To be dated 1900-1902 when the artist worked in Visee, Belgium

Victor Emile Prouve (1858-1943)

Centaurs

Five drawings in pencil or ink and one wood engraving

30 x 50 cm

In a period decorative Nancy frame probably executed by the artist

Exhibited: Paris, Galerie Laura Pecheur, Victor Prouve, december 2001

Ernest Quost (1844-1931)

Great Blue Herons

Signed with artist’s stamp on the reverse

Charcoal on blue paper

40 x 30 cm

Quost was essential a Parisian painter and pastelist and had his first exhibition at the Salon de Paris in 1866. He drew many sketches as he said "to store up in their spirit the most memories of nature as possible"

Maria Engelina van Regteren Altena (1868-1958)

The Window; petit Coin de Ferme with Nasturtium

Signed with initials, and signed again and inscribed with title on the stretcher

Oil on canvas

Van Regteren Altena was one of the so-called 'Amsterdamse Joffers'. She mainly produced (flower) still lives. She painted this work in Apeldoorn according to an inscription on the stretcher where she lived with her parents between 1897-1917

Herman Richir (1866-1942)

A classical beauty

Signed

Oil on panel

46 x 37.5 cm

Coba Ritsema (1876-1961)

Still live with Japanese 'scheerbekken'

Signed

Pastel on paper

57 x 72.5 cm

Provenance: Kunsthandel Francois Buffa &Fils, Amsterdam; Mrs Hartjens, Stadionweg 60, Amsterdam

Exhibited: The Hague, Haags Gemeente Museum, stillevens en bloemen van 30 schilders van heden, mei-juni 1940, no.72

Coba Ritsema was one of the eight members of the so called 'Amsterdamse Joffers'

Willem Roelofs (1822-1897)

A wooded landscape with a cowherd resting at a pond

Signed and dated 1852

Oil on panel

47 x 67 cm

Provenance: private collection, the Netherlands

In an original period frame

Roelofs, who lived in Brussels, Belgium, painted this work just after his first trip in 1851 and in the same year he left for his second journey to Barbizon, France

Tjieke Roelofs-Bleckmann (1877-1976)

A bouquet of flowers

Signed with initials

Oil on panel

25 x 20.5 cm

Provenance: private collection purchased with Kunsthandel Ivo Bouwman, The Hague, circa 25 years ago

Auguste Jean-Baptiste Roubille (1872-1955)

Elegante au petit chien

Signed with monogram

Gouache on paper

38.5 x 24 cm

Provenance: Georges Petit, Paris; Private Collection, purchased at TEFAF with Stoppenbach and Delestre, London, in probably 2003

Philippe Rousseau (1816-1887)

Tulips in a glass vase

Signed

Oil on panel

24 x 18.5 cm

Louis Saalborn (1891-1957)

Abstract Composition

Signed with monogram and dated 1916

Watercolour on paper

30 x 21 cm

This is one of his so-called musicdrawings (cf catalogue Kunstenaren der Idee, Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1978, p.116, no.53 )
Saalborn was a painter, engraver, musician, actor, writer and director

In 1914 he founded together with Theo van Doesburg and Erich Wichmann the Artists Society ‘De Anderen’. They became pioneers of abstract art in the Netherlands and Flanders

Louis Saalborn (1891-1957)

Coastal Road in the Dunes

Signed, and signed twice on the reverse and the stretcher

Oil on canvas

64 x 76 cm

According to a label on the stretcher the painting has been exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

G. Saint-Georges (19th/20th century)

A trompe-l’oeil

Signed

Oil on canvas

54 x 65 cm

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

Willem Bastiaan Tholen (1860-1931)

A beached Bomschuit with a fisherwoman

Signed and dated '94

Oil on panel

25.5 x 35.5 cm

Provenance: directly by inheritance from the family of the painter-collector Paul Arntzenius

Friedrich Thöming (1802-1873)

A view at Villa Mazziotti from a grotto near Posilippo

Signed, oil on paper

14 x 10.5 cm

Adrien Christophe van Trigt (1825-1864)

A pigeon, a parrot, a finch, a wren, a thrush, a blue tit, a bullfinch, and other (exotic) birds

Both signed with initials

Pen and black ink, grey was hand watercolour on paper

45 x 38 cm, two in one frame

Van Trigt was a member of the Royal Society Artis Natura Magistra
He was inspired by the drawings of Aert Schouman

Louis-Abel Truchet (1857-1918)

Le Soir au café Le Lapin Agile, Montmartre, Paris

Signed

Oil on canvas

41 x 33 cm

Provenance: Vente Leroy-Alain (Drouot), 22 June 2005 (hammer € 40.000)

(SOLD)

Joseph Tuerlinckx (1809-1873)

Portrait of Pierre-Louis Dubourcq (1815-1873)

Signed and dated and dedicated a mon ami Dubourcq 1844 Rome

Plaster

16 x 13 cm

Directly from the family of the artist

Tuerlinckx was a sculptor from Malines (Mechelen) Belgium
After a stay in Amsterdam with Louis Royer and Paris he left for Rome where he met his collegue  the painter Dubourcq

Pierre Louis Dubourcq travelled Italy in 1843/44 and took home about 40 oilsketches from this trip

Maurits van der Valk (1857-1935)

A farm

Signed with initials

Pastel on paper

75 x 57 cm

Robert Verly (1901-1963)

Mother and child, D.R. Congo

Signed and dated 1958

Oil on canvas laid down on board

58.5 x 47.5 cm

In an original period African frame
 
Robert Verly was a Belgian administrator and painter in Congo in the 1950’s

He set up ateliers to preserve and pass on the craftmanship of the last surviving Congolese sculptors.
 Verly wanted to protect the sculptors from external (Western, commercial) influences and stimulate the continued development of the indigenous art styles

His paintings are seldom appear on the market and are therefore very rare

Edmond Verstraeten (1870-1956)

Landscape with haystacks

Signed with monogram and dated 1915

Oil on canvas

41.5 x 101 cm

Vestraete was a close friend to Emile Clause and one can detect his luministic influence in this work

Jan van der Vet (1879-1954)

Poppies and a spider web

Signed and dated 1903

Watercolour on paper

38 x 24 cm

Van der vet is mainly a pottery painter working for DKP factory Dordrecht until 1907

In 1908 he left for Berlin

Jan Voerman (1857-1941)

View of Hattem with cows along the river IJssel

Signed with initials

Gouache on paper

27 x 39 cm

Heinrich Vogeler (1872-1942)

Froschbraut

Signed

Etching on paper

15.5 x 15.5 cm

To be dated circa 1899

Henry Emile Vollet (1861-1945)

Le petit Prince Vietnamien

Signed

Oil on paper on cardboard

27 x 22.5 cm

From 1903 onwards Vollet painted Vietnamese subjects.
 His work is in the collection of Musee d’Orsay, Paris

Nicolaas van der Waay (1855-1936)

A street vendor

Signed

Watercolor on paper

24 x 13 cm

Charles Joseph Watelet (1867-1954)

Femme fatale at Folies Bergere, Paris

Signed and dated Paris 1903

Black chalk, charcoal and watercolour on paper

50.5 x 34.5 cm

Pierre Wemaere (1913-2010)

Sphynx s’observant

Signed and dated 74, and signed and dated again 75 and inscribed with title on the reverse

Oil on canvas

54 x 68 cm

The artist has been a close friend to the Danish CoBrA member Asger Jorn. They shared a studio in Copenhagen. In 1938 Wemaere held together with Jorn his first exposition. From then on he is considered a lyrical abstract artist

Hendrik Jan Wolter (1873-1952)

Rainy day at the Coast of Devonshire, England

Signed, signed again and inscribed with title on the reverse

Pastel on paper

57 x 83 cm

Exhibited: Amsterdam, Arti et Amicitiae, Retrospectieve Expositie Hendrik Jan Wolter 1873-1973, from 9 May to 27 May 1973, cat.no. 9

This work will be exhibited in the forthcoming exhibition 'Wolter en het Water' being held in Museum Flehite, Amersfoort from the 1th of December 2023 onwards

Carl Wuttke (1849-1927)

The Ancient Greek Theatre, Taormina, Sicily

Signed

Oil on panel

15 x 22 cm

Marcel Ysewyn (1921-2014)

Spring (Lente)

Signed and dated 1960

Gouache on cardboard

25.5 x 35 cm

Exhibited: Gand, Vereniging der Gentse Kunstenaars, 50^e Salon National des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 1960

Emmanuel Hector Zamor (1840-1919)

Brioches

Signed and dated 1912

Oil on panel

20.5 x 37.5 cm

Zamor is from Brazilian origin, born in Bahia. He came to Paris to study art

In 1985 the Museo de Arte and in 1990 the Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado both in Sao Paulo organised exhibitions of his works

Adrianus van Zeegen (1881-1966)

Fantasy

Signed

Oil on canvas

40 x 109 cm

Provenance: private collection, the Netherlands

Agatha Zethraeus (1872-1966)

Carriages at the Rembrandtplein, Amsterdam

Signed

Oil on board

28 x 35 cm