Gerrit Lamberts (1776-1850)

A View from the House of the Artist on the Korte Leidse Dwarsstraat, Amsterdam, with the back of the houses on the Spiegelgracht

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Gerrit Lamberts (1776-1850)
A View from the House of the Artist on the Korte Leidse Dwarsstraat, Amsterdam, with the back of the houses on the Spiegelgracht
the mount with inscription 'Gezicht uit de keuken van het huis inde korte Leidsche dwarsStraat bij het Spiegelplijn naast de stal van Cr. Godhelp Meyer, bewoond geweest door de Schilders Hulswit Kerkhoff te Cate Lamberts naast hetselve huis heeft gewoond enis overleden de Schilder Stokvis.- G.L....'
pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour, brown ink framing lines
230 x 185 mm.; and a signed watercolour of the Leidse Poort, Amsterdam, by J.A. Rust (1828-1915) (2)

Provenance

(1) with Knuf, Amsterdam, 1954
(2) Art market, Amsterdam, 1960

Exhibited

(1) Amsterdam, 1975/6. no. 74

Lot Essay

(1) Lamberts, who also lived on the Bloemgracht and the Prinsengracht, did a number of drawings depicting views and interiors of the houses in which he lived. Following the death of his wife and child in 1809, he moved from the Bloemgracht to the Korte Leidse Dwarsstraat 12 (now no. 201), where he lived in 1812-3. By 1817, he had moved to the nearby Prinsengracht, where he drew the view over the Spiegelgracht sold in these Rooms, 20 November 1989, lot 287

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