Live Auction 5688Old Master & Early British Drawings and Watercolours
Samuel van Hoogstraten (Dordrecht 1627-1678)
Lot 53

Samuel van Hoogstraten (Dordrecht 1627-1678)

The interior of a synagogue

Closed3 July 2012

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Samuel van Hoogstraten (Dordrecht 1627-1678)
The interior of a synagogue
pen and brown ink, point of the brush and brown wash, arched top
5¼ x 6 in. (13.5 x 15 cm.)

Probably General Auguste-Charles-Joseph de Flahaut de La Billarderie (1785-1870) and his wife Margaret Mercer Elphinstone (1788-1867); and by descent.

Specialist note

Professor Sumowski identified this as the preparatory study for a drawing in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem and considers it to be 'superior in quality' to the more finished work (op. cit., no. 1128). On the basis of similarities with Hoogstraten's Calling of Simon and Andrew in the Fondation Custodia in Paris, he suggested a date in the early 1650s.