Lot Essay
Compare to the artist's portrait drawing sold in these Rooms, 24 November 1992, lot 416, illustrated.
A design for a portrait print, with putti supporting an oval on a plinth
Details
Pieter Tanjé (1706-1761)
A design for a portrait print, with putti supporting an oval on a plinth
pencil, red chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, brown ink framing lines, watermark crowned letters GR
300 x 201 mm.
A design for a portrait print, with putti supporting an oval on a plinth
pencil, red chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, brown ink framing lines, watermark crowned letters GR
300 x 201 mm.
Special notice
Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.
Sale room notice
Mr Erik Löffler has kindly pointed out that this is a view of the former Houtgracht, now Waterlooplein, comparing it to Jan de Beijer's drawing of almost the same view in the collection of the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap Amsterdam (H. Romers, J. de Beijer Oeuvre-Catalogus, The Hague, 1969, no. 979.).