Jan de Bisschop (Amsterdam 1628-1671 The Hague)

Copy of an antique bas-relief: Dionysus seated by a table

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Jan de Bisschop (Amsterdam 1628-1671 The Hague)
Copy of an antique bas-relief: Dionysus seated by a table
with inscription (verso) 'van bisschop' and inscribed 'Ex marm. antiquo' and with number '20' (verso)
traces of black chalk, charcoal, brown wash, brown ink framing lines
15.5 x 12.1 cm.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 19-28 May 1925, part of lot 50.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap, Hoe Hollandse teekenaars Rome zagen 1500-1840, 1940 (no catalogue published).
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. 14, pl. 66 (catalogue by J. Giltaij).
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum, In de ban van Italië: Tekeningen uit een Amsterdamse verzameling, 1995, no. 31 (catalogue by I. Oud, M. Jonker and M. Schapelhouman).

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Lot Essay

After a relief formerly in the villa Albani which appears in an etching from 1763 by Jean-Claude Richard, abbé de Saint-Non (1727-1791). A version of the present drawing is in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (inv. Mas. 1531).

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