Crispijn van den Broeck (Mechelen 1524-1590 Antwerp)

The Last Supper

Details

Crispijn van den Broeck (Mechelen 1524-1590 Antwerp)
The Last Supper
with inscription 'Bernardino Pocetti de Florence / 1542=1612' (verso)
pen and brown and black ink, grey wash, the four corners cut
22.5 x 32.5 cm.

Provenance

Charles Morin (born 1876); R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 10-11 May 1927, lot number unknown; where purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena for 24.15 guilders (Inventory book: '324. t. Chr. v. d. Broeck avondmaal').

Exhibited

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. 32, pl. 9 (catalogue by J. Giltaij).

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Lot Essay

When I.Q. van Regteren Altena acquired this drawing in 1929 he identified it as a work by van den Broek, despite an old attribution to the Florentine Bernardino Poccetti (1548-1612). Indeed, the technique of this drawing, with its strong hatching and subtle washes, is typical of drawings by van den Broeck. It is stylistically comparable to a drawing by him in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (22.819; F. Lugt, Musée du Louvre, Inventaire général des dessins des écoles du nord, maîtres des anciens Pays-Bas nés avant 1550, Paris, 1968, no. 384). An engraving inscribed 'CVB', by an unknown artist, may have been made after the present drawing (New Hollstein 129).

Fig. 1. Anonymous after van den Broeck, Last supper, engraving, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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