View of the Petronella Chapel in the village of De Bilt, near Utrecht

Details

Herman Saftleven (Rotterdam 1609-1685 Utrecht)
View of the Petronella Chapel in the village of De Bilt, near Utrecht
black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey wash, brown ink framing lines
4 1/8 x 5 7/8 in. (10.4 x 14.8 cm.)

Provenance

Cornelis Hofstede de Groot.
Sir John C. Witt.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 13 November 1991, lot 360.

Literature

W. Schultz, Herman Saftleven, Berlin, 1982, p. 252, no. 437.

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Lot Essay

According to the 1991 sale catalogue, Hofstede de Groot, in a letter to a previous owner to whom he had given the drawing, identified the location depicted in this drawing, and cited a drawing of the same place by Jan van Goyen in Braunschweig for comparison. Saftleven made at least two other drawings of this location, both in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. 4357, 4356; Schultz, op. cit., p. 237, nos. 368-369).

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