Lot 60
60
Simon de Vlieger (Rotterdam 1600/1601-1653 Weesp)
From the Collection of Jean Bonna
Simon de Vlieger (Rotterdam 1600/1601-1653 Weesp)

The beach at Scheveningen, with a cart and fishing boats

Details
Simon de Vlieger (Rotterdam 1600/1601-1653 Weesp)
The beach at Scheveningen, with a cart and fishing boats
with inscription 'Esselens' (verso)
black and red chalk, grey wash, pen and brown ink
4 ½ x 9 ¼ in. (11.6 x 23.6 cm)
Provenance
Heinrich Wilhelm Campe (1770-1862), Leipzig (L. 1391) and by descent to his daughter and son-in-law,
Sophie Hasse and Dr Karl Ewald Hasse (1810-1902), Göttingen and Leipzig, and by descent to their son,
Ernst Heinrich Ehlers (1835-1925), Göttingen; C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 9-10 May 1930, lot 530.
Anton Wilhelmus Mari Mensing (1866-1936), Amsterdam; Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 27-29 April 1937, lot 792.
Possibly W. van de Mandele; Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 17-18 December 1968, lot 274.
Dr Einar Perman (1893-1976), Stockholm; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 9 June 1975, lot 127.
British Rail Pension Fund; Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1991, lot 35.
Literature
M. van Berge-Gerbaud, Éloge de la navigation hollandaise au XVIIe siècle, exhib. cat., Paris, Fondation Custodia, 1989, under no. 81.
N. Strasser, Dessins des Écoles du Nord du XVe au XVIIIe siècle. Collection Jean Bonna, Geneva, 2013, no. 51, ill.
Exhibited
Austin, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings, 1982, no. 19.
Norwich Castle Museum, The Northern Eye. Drawings from France and the Netherlands 1600-1800. A Private Collection, 1987.

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Lot Essay

The artistic output of the Rotterdam born artist Simon de Vlieger consisted of prints, drawings and paintings with a particular focus on the Dutch landscape. This sheet is part of a group of drawings showing dune landscapes near the North Sea. A similar drawing in a comparably schematic style is in the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris (inv. 2013; see C.P. van Eeghen, ‘Simon de Vlieger as a Draftsman, I, The Pen Drawings’, Master Drawings, XLIV, 2011, no. 1, p. 19, fig. 18).

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