Jan de Bisschop (Amsterdam 1628-1671 The Hague)

Portrait of a man, after Joos van Cleve

Details

Jan de Bisschop (Amsterdam 1628-1671 The Hague)
Portrait of a man, after Joos van Cleve
with Constantijn Huygens's inscriptions 'Holbein Inv.' (upper right) and '25 December 1667' (verso)
black chalk, brush and brown wash, watermark Strasburg lily with letter W
26.2 x 20.8 cm.

Provenance

Constantijn Huygens II (1628-1697) (in whose hand the drawing is inscribed according to R.E. Jeller and M. Plomp, 1992, infra).
Possibly Curt Otto (circa 1880-1929); C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 7 November 1929, part of lot 167 ('ca. 35 Bl. Handzeichnungen meist älterer Meister [...] Bisschop [...]'); where purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena for 40 guilders (Inventory book: '801. t. J de Bisschop copie J v Cleve').

Exhibited

Florence, Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Disegni di Jan de Bisschop detto Giovanni Episcopio (Olanda 1628-1671), 1971, no. 35.
Amsterdam, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Episcopius: Jan de Bisschop (1628-1671): advocaat en tekenaar, 1992, no. 29 (catalogue by R.E. Jeller and M. Plomp).

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Lot Essay

Huygens' inscription indicates that he thought that de Bisschop made this drawing after a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. However, this drawing probably copies a painting by Joos van Cleve (circa 1485-1540), formerly in the Watney Collection, Cornbury Park, Oxon., sold at Christie's, London, 23 June 1967, lot 41 (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1. Joos van Cleve, Portrait of a Gentleman, oil on panel, 50.8 x 43.20 cm., present whereabouts unknown.

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