This lot is offered without reserve.
PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
ATTRIBUTED TO EGBERT LIEVENSZ. VAN DER POEL (DELFT 1621-1664 ROTTERDAM)
A night scene with two men and a dog walking by the light of a torch
Details
ATTRIBUTED TO EGBERT LIEVENSZ. VAN DER POEL (DELFT 1621-1664 ROTTERDAM) A night scene with two men and a dog walking by the light of a torch
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (13.9 x 21 cm)
Provenance
Unidentified collector (not in Lugt?). Unidentified collector (L. 513). Jean-Marc (‘John’) Du Pan (1785-1838), Geneva (L. 1440); Hôtel des Ventes, Paris, 26 March 1840, lot 693 (as Andries Both). William Mayor (died 1874), London (L. 2799, according to an inscription on the verso). Marquis de Bailleul (according to an inscaription on the verso). Louis Deglatigny (1854-1936), Rouen (L. 1768a). with J. Cailac, July 1934 (according to an inscription on the verso). Paul Mathias Polakovits (1921-1987), Paris (L. 3561). with Kate de Rothschild, London (Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1984, no. 9, ill.).
This charming night scene, a speciality of Van der Poel as a painter, can be compared to a genre scene sold Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, 5 November 2002, lot 64.