Jupiter and Callisto

Details

Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam 1695-1754)
Jupiter and Callisto
signed and dated 'Jdwit. 1733'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watercolour and bodycolour, brown ink framing lines, countermark IV
17½ x 12 in. (445 x 305 mm.)

Provenance

Hendrik van Maarseveen; Amsterdam, 28 October 1793, lot B3 (360 fl. with the previous lot in the present sale, to Yver for Goll van Franckenstein).
J. Goll van Franckenstein (L. 2987), with his number 'N 3784.', but not in his sale in 1833.
Baron Isendoorn à Blois (L. 2610); Amsterdam, 18 December 1879, lot 180 (probably to Langerhuizen).
P. Langerhuizen; Amsterdam, 29 April 1919, lot 689 (390fl. with the previous lot in the present sale, to Gebr. Douwes).
W.J.R. Dreesmann, on loan to the Amsterdam Historical Museum, 1950-60.

Literature

A. Staring, Jacob de Wit 1695-1754, Amsterdam, 1958, no. 95.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

See notes to the preceding lot.
A finished drawing of the present composition, also dated 1733 and bearing an inscription relating to Jonas Witsen's commission for the compositions, is in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, E. Bock and J. Rosenberg, Die Zeichnungen alter Meister im Kupferstichkabinett. Die niederländischen Meister, Berlin, 1930, no. Z14593.
We are grateful to Dr Hans-Ulrich Beck for his kind help in tracing the provenance of this lot.

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