Michiel Versteegh (1756-1843)

Details

Michiel Versteegh (1756-1843)

Connoisseurs looking at Drawings by Candlelight

signed 'M; Versteegh. fecit' (verso); pencil, pen and grey ink, brown and grey wash, black ink framing lines
249 x 312 mm.

Provenance

with B. Houthakker, Amsterdam

Exhibited

Laren, 1963, no. 114
Bremen/Braunschweig/Stuttgart, 1979/80, no. 145

Lot Essay

This Dordrecht artist is best known for his night pieces with candlelight. He was the master of Gillis Smak Gregoor, Martinus Schouman and Abraham Teerlink. A comparable drawing is in the Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (inv.no. MvS371)

More from The Hans van Leeuwen Collection

View All