Jan van Ravenswaay (1789-1869)

A Study of Bulls

Details

Jan van Ravenswaay (1789-1869)
A Study of Bulls
signed 'Jv:R: fecit'
pencil, pen and brown ink, brown wash, brown ink framing lines
140 x 205 mm.; and a drawing of cattle in a landscape signed and dated 1819 (2)

Provenance

(1) Pictura, Groningen (L. 2029)
with Scheen, The Hague, 1953
(2) from an Album Amicorum of Petronella van Woensel
Art trade, June 1983

Literature

P.A. Scheen, Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars 1750-1950, The Hague, 1970, II, fig. 145

Lot Essay

(1) Closely comparable to the artist's studies of sheep in the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, M. Sellink, Nederlandse tekeningen uit de negentiende eeuw, 1, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, 1994-5, pp. 158-9, no. 54. Van Ravenswaay was taught for a year by Jordanus Hoorn (1753-1839), afterwards by the cattle painter P.G. van Os

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