Jan de Beijer (1703-circa 1785)

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Jan de Beijer (1703-circa 1785)

Views of the Castle of Kessel on the River Maas with an Artist drawing and of the Castle de Putting near Kessel

signed and dated 'JDB(linked):ad.viv.del:/a o 1738'(recto) and with inscriptions 'Het Hof te Kessel./Tegenw: Staat der Nederl:II deel.pag.(163)' and inscribed 't 'Hujs de Putting bij Kessel.' (verso); pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash, black ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark Strasburg lily (2)
246 x 335 mm. and smaller (2)

Provenance

with Douwes, Amsterdam, 1967

Literature

H. Romers, J. de Beijer Oeuvre-Catalogus, The Hague, 1969, nos. 1267 and 1287

Exhibited

(1) Bonn/Saarbrücken/Bochum, 1968/9, no. 12
(1) Rheydt, 1971, no. 5
(1) Venlo, Goltzius Museum, 1973, Noord-Limburg Kastelenland
(1) Amsterdam, 1975/6, no. 12
Cleves, Städtisches Museum Haus Koekkoek, Jan de Beyer (1703-1780), Zeichnungen von Emmerich bis Roermond, 1980, p. 88, nos. 160-1, illustrated
(1) Venlo, Goltzius Museum, 1989/90, Momentopnamen langs de Maas, no. 22

Lot Essay

A watercolour dated 1739 in the Timmermans Collection, Kessel, shows the Castle of Kessel from the opposite direction to the view in the present lot

(2) See illustration on p.

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