At the poulterer's shop

Details

Tibout Regters (Dordrecht 1710-1768 Amsterdam)
At the poulterer's shop
with inscription 'de Moni fe:-'
brush and grey wash, heightened with white on blue paper, black ink framing lines
19.9 x 16.8 cm.

Provenance

probably the artist's posthumous sale; Hendrik de Winter and Jan Yver, Amsterdam, 18 April 1768, Album no. 2.
Christaan Sepp; Van der Schley, Amsterdam, 5 December 1775, Album F, lot 27 ('Een Juffrouw by een Vogelverkoper. Met de pen en gewassen door de Moni'; f -:10 to Beyen, together with F26).

Literature

R.-J. te Rijdt, 'Tekeningen door Tibout Regters', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, LIV, 2006, p. 16, fig. 12.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

According to the eighteenth-century inscription this drawing is by the Leiden 'fijnschilder' Louis de Moni (1698-1771). In his 2006 article, however, Robert-Jan te Rijdt argued that this drawing can without doubt be given to Tibout Regters. Te Rijdt demonstrates that the subject and technique, especially the skilful use of pen and ink to suggest light and shadow in the clothes of the figures, are typical of Regters' drawings. A very comparable drawing, in both subject and technique, also given to Regters, is in the De Grez collection in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (inv. De Grez 2607; Te Rijdt, op. cit., fig. 13).

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