Jan Josef Horemans the Elder (1682-1759)

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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (Lots 111-118) The following group of drawings by the Antwerp artist Jan Josef Horemans the Elder comes from the collection of A.F.C. Smet, and thence by descent. Most of the drawings bear his collector's mark, (not in Lugt). The group gives an interesting insight into the practice of Horemans' workshop, where his son Jan Josef (1714-1790) was also active. The drawings were apparently kept for many years, as the pictures in which the figures appear are dated over a period of years. A number of the figures could also be used in reverse because the figures were sometimes traced on the versi, while the pinholes in some of the drawings may may indicate how often they were used by both father and son.

Jan Josef Horemans the Elder (1682-1759)

A study of a small girl seen from behind

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Jan Josef Horemans the Elder (1682-1759)
A study of a small girl seen from behind
red chalk
182 x 118 mm.

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Lot Essay

Horemans used this study in his picture of a cobbler dated 1712 recorded in the Gemäldegalerie, Vienna, inv. no. 2627, catalogue 1907, no. 132. Another picture by Horemans using the same figure and dated 1734, was sold at Christie's, London, 27 May 1983, lot 125. Further pictures by Horemans in which the girl appears are in the National Museum, Poznan, Peinture étrangère, XVI-XVIII siècle, exposition de peinture Italienne, Flamande et Hollandaise des collections du Musée National de Poznan, Poznan Koszalm, 1962, no. 25; the Musée d'Archéologie et des Beaux-Arts, Vienne, inv. no. 201g (pendant to no. 197g); and in that formerly with Mettes, The Hague, 1945.

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