Lot 174
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Jan Grasdorp (Zwolle 1642-1686)
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Jan Grasdorp (Zwolle 1642-1686)

Gerrit Grasdorp disputing with a fishwife in the market at Zwolle

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Jan Grasdorp (Zwolle 1642-1686)
Gerrit Grasdorp disputing with a fishwife in the market at Zwolle
inscribed 'G. Grasdorp vegt tegen een viswijf. tot Zwol' and signed 'J. Gr.' and with inscription '6 [?] st.'
black and white chalk, grey wash, on blue paper
26.9 x 44.4 cm.
Provenance
Collection Carl Schöffer, Amsterdam (according to a note in the collection files).
A.N. Godefroy; R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 8-10 May 1900, lot 275 (as Gezina ter Borch).
Anonymous sale; Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 19 January 1904, lot 51 (as Gezina ter Borch; 54 guilders to Frederik Muller).
Collection H. H. (?) Lugard, Deventer; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena on 2 April for 50 guilders (Inventory book: '289. t. J. Grasdorp. vischmarkt').
Literature
F.A. Hoefer, 'De Overijsselsche schilder Jan Grasdorp', Oud Holland, XXXV, 1917, pp. 156-7.
J. Verbeek, 'Tekeningen van de familie Grasdorp', Miscellanea J.Q. van Regteren Altena, Amsterdam, 1969, p. 160, ill. 5.
Exhibited
Zwolle, Geschiedkundig-Overijsselsche tentoonstelling, 1882, no. 1199 (as Gezina ter Borch; catalogue by J.J. Tijl).
Deventer, exhibited in De Waag, 1927 (as Gezina ter Borch; according to a note in the collection files).
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Lot Essay

Jan Grasdorp was a member of a family from Zwolle which produced many artists, like his great uncle Engbert (circa 1610-1685) (for an example of Engbert's draughtsmanship see Two peasants near the gateway to a farmyard from the I.Q. van Regteren Altena Sale, Part II, Christie's, Amsterdam, 10 December 2014, lot 209). According to the inscription this lively market scene shows 'G. Grasdorp' fighting with a fishwife. This could refer to the artist Gerrit Grasdorp (1659-1716) who possibly was Jan's brother. The work of both Jan and Gerrit show the influence of the Ter Borch family who were also active in Zwolle. The present drawing is, for example, stylistically close to the Marketplace with a crier by Gerard ter Borch II (1617-1681) in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. A 824; A. McNeil Kettering, Drawings from the ter Borch Studio Estate, The Hague, 1988, I, no. 39).

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