Chrispijn van de Passe the Elder (circa 1565-1635)

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Chrispijn van de Passe the Elder (circa 1565-1635)

Studies of an Evening Primrose, Violets, Dandelions and Narcissus (recto); Studies of Mallow and Nightshade (verso)

pen and brown ink, brown wash
117 x 190 mm.; and studies of oak-branches and leafs (recto) and ivy and poppy (verso), pen and brown ink, 123 x 178 mm. (2)

Provenance

J.W. Mensing, Amsterdam
with Wisseling, Amsterdam
Dr. J. den Hartogh, Zeist, 1963/4

Exhibited

(1)Laren, 1963, no. 90
(1)Nijmegen, 1965, no. 10
(1)Leeuwarden, 1966, no. 61
Bonn/Saarbrücken/Bochum, 1968/9, no. 106
Amsterdam, 1975/6, no. 93 a/b
Utrecht, 1978, no. 82 a/b

Lot Essay

These studies belong to a series of four, one of which bears Van de Passe's monogram (Collection Foundation P. & N. de Boer, Amsterdam); another is in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (K.G. Boon, Catalogue of the Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Rijksmuseum, II, Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, The Hague, 1978, no. 396, pl. 396)

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