Josephus Augustus Knip (1777-1847)

A Town Wall with a Jetty by a Tower at an Estuary and Fishermen mooring, elegant company looking on from a balcony

Details

Josephus Augustus Knip (1777-1847)
A Town Wall with a Jetty by a Tower at an Estuary and Fishermen mooring, elegant company looking on from a balcony
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour, framed
433 x 591 mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, P. Brandt, Amsterdam, circa 1958, where acquired by the late husband of the present owner.

Literature

E. Bergvelt, J.A. Knip, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Amsterdam, 1974, tek. 41.

Exhibited

Tilburg, La Barrique, J.A. Knip, een neo-classicist uit Tilburg, 1975, no. 7, incorrectly illustrated as no. 9.
Den Bosch, Noordbrabants Museum, De Familie Knip, 1988, no. 71, illustrated.

Lot Essay

F. Kuyvenhoven (exhib. catalogue Den Bosch, 1988) dates this to circa 1808 on the basis of a comparison with the artist's signed view at Tours in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (inv.no. N2926) which is dated 1808, although the size of the present lot and that of the previous lot in this sale suggest that they may have been a pair, and indicates a dating to after 1812 for the present landscape.

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