A.M. (French School, circa 1870-1890)
At the exhibition (Salon Carre, Louvre)
Signed with initials
Black chalk on paper
31.5 x 18.5 cm
According to an annotation by his daughter on the reverse the artist should read Antoine Meillou, pupil of Henri Gervex
Floris Arntzenius (1864-1925)
Strolling in a rainy Spuistraat, The Hague
Signed
Watercolour on paper
30.5 x 43.5 cm
Paul Arntzenius (1883-1965)
Interior of the milkfactory ‘De Sierkan’, The Hague
Signed and dated 1907
Coloured chalks on paper
36 x 45 cm
Alexander Asperslagh (1901-1984)
Het Haagsche Bos
Signed and dated 1925
Oil on panel
21.5 x 45 cm
Emile Baes (1879-1954)
The doll
Signed
Oil on canvas
95 x 75 cm
Exhibited: Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, 1912. N0 1672
Frans Simon Baljon (1901-1953)
Fireworks; A Surinam feast
Oil on panel
34.5 x 25.5 cm
Provenance: Goma Gallery of Modern Art, Eindhoven in the 1990’s
Frans Simon Baljon (1901-1953)
Portrait of a young man
Signed
Oil on panel
34.5 x 25 cm
In an original frame from Surinam
Probably to be dated from 1927-1935 when Baljon travelled Surinam
Marius Bauer (1867-1932)
An Oriental Street scene
Signed
Oil on canvas
54.5 x 72.5 cm
Provenance: E.J. van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, inv.no.14401 (As little street in Luxor, Egypt)
Jacques Bergmans (1891-1959)
Soleil couchant
Signed, and dated ’16, and signed and dated again and titled on the reverse
Oil on canvas
76.5 x 64.5 cm
Bernard Johannes Blommers (1845-1914)
Playing children on the beach
Signed
Oil on canvas
30.5 x 45 cm
Bernard Johannes Blommers (1845-1914)
Summer in Scheveningen; first steps in the breakers
Signed
Oil on canvas
37 x 51 cm
Painted between 1890-95
George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923)
A Waspit (Schele Mie): bending woman
Pastel on paper
32 x 29 cm
Provenance: E.J van Wisselingh & Co, Amsterdam, 22 september 1909: Collection Dirk Hudig, Amsterdam; thence by descent Needham, Massachusetts, USA
Exhibited: Brussel, Palais des Beaux-Arts,1932, cat.no. 15 ( F. Buffa); Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum,10 June-1 August 1933, cat.no. 74 (F.Buffa)
Bob Bruijn (1906-1989)
A herring
Signed and dated VIII’46
Oil on cardboard
17.5 x 23.5 cm
Eugene Boudin (1824-1898)
Riviere aux environs de Dunkerque
Signed and dated 89
Oil on canvas
41 x 56 cm
Provenance : L.Sharp 1923; Hazlitt Galleries, London; private collection the Netherlands
Literature: Robert Schmit, Eugene Boudin 1824-1898, III, no.2575, Paris, 1973
Exhibited : Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, exposition Boudin,1891, no.21; and 1933, no.66
Paris, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, exposition des oeuvres de Eugene Boudin, 1899,no.179
Frederic Marius de Buzon (1879-1958)
Reverie; a relaxing moment
Stamped Atelier F. Marius de Buzon on the reverse
Oil on panel
20 x 29 cm
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
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, 50e 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