Diana and Actaeon

Details

JAN DE BISSCHOP (AMSTERDAM 1628-1671 THE HAGUE)
Diana and Actaeon

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
17.1 x 24.7 cm

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 1 July 1997, lot 213; where acquired by the current owners.

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Lot Essay

This particulary impressive example of De Bisschop’s wash drawings was undoubtedly made after a painting by Cornelis de Bisschop, by whom several renderings of the myth of Diana and Actaeon are still known (N. Sluijter-Seijffert, Cornelis van Poelenburch, 1594/5-1667. The Paintings, [Amsterdam] 2016, nos. 113-1161, ill.). Already in the seventeenth century, collectors highly valued De Bisschop’s copies after paintings, which he may have made with the idea to reproduce them in print (R.E. Jellema and M. Plomp, Episcopius. Jan de Bisschop (1628-1671). Advocaat en tekenaar/Lawyer and Draughtsman, cat. exh. Amsterdam, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, 1993, pp. 38-39). Other copies by De Bisschop after Van Poelenburch survive at Teylers Museum, Haarlem (ibid., no. 26, ill.), and the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (inv. D 1478).

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