Live Auction 3052The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part II. Dutch and Flemish Drawings from 1500-1900
After Jacques de Gheyn II or III, possibly by Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598-1657 Amsterdam)
Lot 131

After Jacques de Gheyn II or III, possibly by Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598-1657 Amsterdam)

Two plates from: Various heads of men, women and mascarons (New Hollstein 23-24)

Closed10 December 2014

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EUR 16,250

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After Jacques de Gheyn II or III, possibly by Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598-1657 Amsterdam)
Two plates from: Various heads of men, women and mascarons (New Hollstein 23-24)
two etchings, 1638, on laid paper, without watermark, NH23 trimmed to or just outside the platemark, NH24 with small margins and with the lower right corner reattached, the upper left corner repaired, both window-mounted, with two other impressions of NH24, printed recto and verso onto one sheet of laid paper, without watermark, with wide margins, generally good condition
[NH23] 4¾ x 3¼ in. (11.8 x 8.3 cm.) (sheet)
[NH24 (1)] 3½ x 4¾ in. (8.9 x 12.3 cm.) (sheet); 3¼ x 4 5/8 in. (7.9 x 11.6 cm.) (platemark)
[NH24 (2 & 3)] 5¾ x 7 1/8 in. (14.3 x 18 cm.) (sheet) 3½ x 4 5/8 in. (7.9 x 11.6 cm.) (platemark) (3)

Two of the three sheets:
Friedrich August II of Saxony (1797-1854) (L. 972); C.G. Boerner, Leipzig.

Specialist note

These etchings are probably related to Jacques de Gheyn II's design for a grotto fountain for the Stadholder's quarters in The Hague, completed by Jacques de Gheyn III. A related drawing by de Gheyn II or III is in the Courtauld Institute, London (I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Jacques de Gheyn: Three Generations, The Hague, 1983, II, no. 531, III, fig. 446).