View of the port and citadel of San Sebastian, Spain

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Bonaventura Peeters I (Antwerp 1614-1652 Hoboken [?])
View of the port and citadel of San Sebastian, Spain
with inscriptions 'St. Sebastian 1652 February 29' and 'dit is de Laste Teekeninge die Bonavonteura Peeters gheteekendt heeft' and completed in another hand 'en is gestornen op Zee' (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, watermark foolscap above three balls
7 x 12 5/8 in. (177 x 318 mm.)

Provenance

Purchased at Parsons, October 1912 (5s. to Oppé).

Literature

C. van Hasselt, Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth Century, exhib. cat., London, Victoria and Albert Museum, and elsewhere, 1972, under no. 67, note 4.
D.B. Brown, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Catalogue of the collection of Drawings, IV, Earlier British drawings, British artists and foreigners working in Britain before c. 1775, Oxford, 1982, under no. 199.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, The Paul Oppé Collection, 1958, no. 412.

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Lot Essay

Like his younger brother Jan (see the preceding lot), Bonaventura Peeters drew a large number of views of both European and more exotic locations, for example the Caspian, Archangel, Patmos, Jerusalem and Mecca. He may have travelled himself but it seems more likely that these views are based on other sources. The present drawing is particularly important for giving apparently near contemporary information on the artist's death at sea, although other sources suggest he died at home in Hoboken.

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