Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam 1695/96-1754)

Design for a ceiling painting: Apollo and the Four Seasons

Details

Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam 1695/96-1754)
Design for a ceiling painting: Apollo and the Four Seasons
signed 'J d Wit inv.'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, black ink framing lines
13 5/8 x 18 3/8 in. (34.6 x 46.6 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; A.G. de Visser, The Hague, 24-26 September 1872, lot 246 ('Composition pour un plafond. A la plume, lavé de bistre, piéce capitale, signé').

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Lot Essay

There is a virtually identical, but unsigned, drawing of the same composition in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig (inv. Z 2143), while a copy of the composition given to Jan Augustini (1725-1773) is in the Stiftung Klassik und Kunstsammlungen, Weimar (inv. KK 4722).

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