6000 - 6491 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Lacks title-p. and 9 portraits; first portrait partly sl. crudely handcol.; one portrait w. closed tear; sl. stained and fingersoiled. Binding stained.
= A rare series of portraits of the delegates participating in the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia. Van Someren 186.
- Both trimmed to/ just inside the plate mark. = F.M. portretten 1575a and 1591a. Rarely found together.
= Sliggers/ Van der Steur, Portretten van 100jarigen, portret c and e. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
- Hollstein 4 trimmed just outside the borderline and sl. soiled: Hollstein 7 trimmed outside the platemark.
= Hollstein 4 and 7, 2nd (or 3rd) state of 3. Three of the four with the collector's stamp of Albert Pieter van den Briel (1881-1971) (Lugt 407a); Hollstein 4 also with the manuscript collector's mark of Naudet (dated 1818) (Lugt 1937).
- Previously folded, w. the fold still visible; cut just outside the platemark.
= On 17th century laid paper with what appears to be a foolscap watermark. Hollstein 12, 2nd state (of 3), with the plate-edge still uneven and marked at the foot.
- Each trimmed 2-5 mm. outside border line.
= The Frisian horse (Hollstein 9, 3rd state (of 3), the tail lengthened. Without watermark); The neighing horse (Hollstein 10, 2nd state (of 2), with the rework of the foreground and church in background. Without watermark, The cropped horse (Hollstein 11, 3rd state (of 3), the tail made thinner. Unidentified watermark); The plough horses (Hollstein 12, 2nd state (of 3). Without watermark); The worn-out horse (Hollstein 13, 2nd state (of 2)). Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek, one w. his collector's mark on verso. Each w. collector's mark "KS" on verso (not in Lugt).
- Sl. grey impression, but otherwise fine.
= On 17th century laid paper withwatermark showing crowned coat of arms of Amsterdam. Hollstein 15, 5th state, without address, date and number.
- Top w. a few vague waterstains.
- Professionally restored, backed w. thin paper.; w. various sm. closed holes and tears; formerly folded.
= Bartsch XIV, 18. The version with the pine tree on the right. Possibly a copy after.
Idem (after). Cleopatra reclining on a bed. Engraving, 10,5x17,6 cm.
- Sm. restorations/ repairs in upper corners and a small spot in right edge.
= Copy in reverse (w. a later added monogram "AD" in pen and ink). Bartsch XIV, 199 (copy C).
AND 3 others by/ after the same: Saint Cecilia, St Paul, St John the Evangelist, St Augustine and Mary Magdalen (Bartsch 116), Two women holding a book under a sign of the Zodiac (Bartsch 397) and Personification of Philosophy (cf. Bartsch 381). - ADDED: 2 very poor copies of engravings by Nicholas BEATRIZET (Fight between Love and Reason and Children's Bacchanal).
- Good impression, trimmed on/ just outside the platemark. Expertly doubled. Erased owner's entry on verso.
= New Hollstein 300; Hollstein/ Bartsch 46, 8th (final) state. With the collector's marks of i.a. Vicomte de Montfort (Lugt 1035) and A.P. van Briel (Lugt 407a).
- Washed copy.
= Probably a later impression of New Hollstein 186, 2nd state (of 4). On laid paper without watermark.
- Yellowed/ browned; on 19th cent. paper, no discernable watermark; doubled w. Japanese.
= New Hollstein 243, 4th state (of 5).