A guinea fowl

Details

Jabes Heenck (The Hague 1752-1782 Leiden)
A guinea fowl
signed and dated 'J:H....f 1778.'
traces of black chalk, watercolour, traces of gold framing lines
38.1 x 25.4 cm.

Provenance

Hendrik van Maarseveen; Yver et al., Amsterdam, 28 October 1793, Album R, lot 57 (' [...] J. Heenck [...] Een Poelepoetade').

Exhibited

Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, Herdenkingstentoonstelling Aart Schouman 1710-1792, 1960, no. 177.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

A pupil of Aert Schouman (1710-1792), Heenck almost exclusively made drawings of birds. Heenck must have made quite a number of these drawings in his short career; in the 1793 sale of the estate of van Maarseveen no fewer than 64 drawings by the artist were offered. In addition to his activities as an amateur artist, Heenck also acted as an art broker (see A.J. van der Aa, Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden, Haarlem, 1867, VIII, p. 370).

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