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A Nightingale
Details
Pieter Holsteijn I (c. 1580-1662)
A Nightingale
signed with monogram 'PH fc.'
pen and grey ink, watercolour, bodycolour, brown ink framing lines fragmentary watermark De Haes, framed
150 x 197 mm.
A Nightingale
signed with monogram 'PH fc.'
pen and grey ink, watercolour, bodycolour, brown ink framing lines fragmentary watermark De Haes, framed
150 x 197 mm.
Provenance
J. le Francq van Berkhey, his inscription on part of the old mount 'Sylvia major Lutea kleinii, Matacilla Lalicarica Lin 18 groote geele vliegenvanger duyn putter. (?)auvette. (?) cumicea asusedonacea Brff. no5 Kleyn fam 4 gen wib 3 no 8'; Dankmeijer, Amsterdam, 29 March 1785, lot 1329, 'De duin Nagtegaal zeer fraai door P. Holstein, rare Vogel'.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, lot 116, illustrated (Nlg. 1,495 to the present owner).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 1 December 1986, lot 116, illustrated (Nlg. 1,495 to the present owner).