Design for a funerary monument

Details

Aert Schouman (Dordrecht 1710-1792 The Hague)
Design for a funerary monument
signed and dated 'A Schouman fecit 1785..' and inscribed 'voor den Hr. Jv Hoogstraeten. dienende voor het graf van de wele agtbaar D Ev Bemont.' (below) and 'Pleng wandelaar hier een traan geherbergt in dees arck / Het overschot van den Eer t nederlandsch Parnas. B.' (on the tomb)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour, grey ink framing lines, watermark D&C Blauw
29.6 x 22 cm.

Provenance

with Aalbers, Arnhem; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena in spring 1933 for 5 guilders (Inventory book: '1167. t. A Schouman. grafontwerp').

Literature

R. Mandle, in Dutch Masterpieces from the Eighteenth Century: Paintings & Drawings 1700-1800, exhib. cat., Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 1971-72, under no. 76.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

Schouman's inscription reveals that this monument was commissioned by Jan van Hoogstraaten (1741-1801) for the grave of Emanuel Bemont (1717-1784) ('voor den Hr. Jv Hoogstraeten. dienende voor het graf van de wele agtbaar D Ev Bemont'). A merchant from The Hague, van Hoogstraten was the founder and director of the poetry society 'Kunstliefde spaart géén vlijt', of which Schouman was also a member. Little is known about Bemont, but he lived in The Hague and he might have known van Hoogstraten through their mutual interest in poetry.

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