Hendrick Hondius I (Duffel 1573-1650 The Hague)

A farmstead with a windmill by a pond

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Hendrick Hondius I (Duffel 1573-1650 The Hague)
A farmstead with a windmill by a pond
dated 'Ao 16..' adjusted to 'AH 1625.' by another hand
pen and brown ink, grey wash, pen and black ink framing lines
4¾ x 6¾ in. (121 x 170 mm.)

Provenance

Prince W. Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff (L. 2602d); De Vries, Amsterdam, 27 March 1925, lot 230 (as Dutch School).
E.J. Otto (L. 873b).
With C.G. Boerner, Dusseldorf, 1962, no. 92 (as Dirk Eversen Lons).
Prof. Einar Perman; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 9 June 1975, lot 137 (as Carel de Hooch).
With P.& D. Colnaghi, London, 1976, no. 7.
Jacobus Klaver, his mark (not in Lugt); Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 10 May 1994, lot 35.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tekeningen van oude Meesters. De verzameling Jacobus A. Klaver, 1993, no. 27.

Lot Essay

A landscape drawing by Hondius of similar composition to the present drawing and showing The farmhouse at Wijnegem is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (M. Schapelhouman, Netherlandish Drawings circa 1600, Amsterdam, 1987, no. 34), while a larger composition showing the Château de Tervueren, is in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (F. Stampfle, Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1991, no. 77).

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