Claes Jansz. Visscher II (Amsterdam 1586-1652)

The Karthuizer Klooster, Amsterdam, with a small lock in the foreground

Details

Claes Jansz. Visscher II (Amsterdam 1586-1652)
The Karthuizer Klooster, Amsterdam, with a small lock in the foreground
inscribed 'de Catuÿsers van de suÿtsÿde'
pen and brown ink, brown wash, brown ink framing lines
(5¾ x 7½ in. (14.5 x 19 cm.)

Provenance

Probably anonymous sale, Weddepohl, Amsterdam, 27 April 1847, Album A, lot 4.
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919).

Literature

H. Brugmans, Geschiedenis van Amsterdam van oorsprong af tot heden, Amsterdam, 1930, p. 39, reproduced.
J.Z. Kannegieter, De Amsterdamse Jordaan, Amsterdam, 1959, p. 44, reproduced.
M. Simon, Claes Jansz. Visscher, inaugural dissertation Freiberg, 1958 (typescript), p.51, Z, no. 25.
W.T. Kloek, De kasteeltekeningen van Roelant Roghman, Alphen aan den Rijn, 1990, II, pp. 89-90, 92, fig. 143.
M. Schapelhouman and P. Schatborn, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Artists born between 1580 and 1600, exh. cat., Amsterdam, 1998, p. 182, under no. 392.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Maatschappij 'Arti et Amicitiae', Tentoonstelling van Amsterdamse stadsgezichten 1632-1932, 1932, no. 77.
Amsterdam, Waaggebouw, Zes eeuwen 'Katholiek Amsterdam', 1946, no. 77.
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 150, pl. 44 (catalogue by J. Giltaij).

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Lot Essay

The Charterhouse or Carthusian cloister in Amsterdam was founded in the Jordaan district of Amsterdam in 1398 and, in the early 17th century, still stood outside the city walls. Seen here from the south, it was a subject that Visscher represented several times when making a collection of drawings of the districts and surroundings of Amsterdam in the years around 1607. Other views of the Charterhouse are in the Rijksmuseum, the Stadsarchief Amsterdam and the Van Eeghen Collection (see Schapelhouman and Schatborn, op. cit., note 2). The latter served as the basis for an engraving showing one of the monk's cells, one of a series of four prints (Hollstein 140).

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