Live Auction 3052The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part II. Dutch and Flemish Drawings from 1500-1900
Jan Victors (Amsterdam 1619-1676 East Indies)
Lot 177

Jan Victors (Amsterdam 1619-1676 East Indies)

The Feast of Esther (recto); Portrait of a family on a terrace (verso)

Closed10 December 2014

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Jan Victors (Amsterdam 1619-1676 East Indies)
The Feast of Esther (recto); Portrait of a family on a terrace (verso)
traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto); black chalk, brown wash (verso), pen and brown ink framing lines
12 3/8 x 11 5/8 in. (31.5 x 29.5 cm.)

Henri Duval, Liège; Frederick Muller et Cie, Amsterdam, 22 June 1910, lot 175 (as Samuel van Hoogstraten).
Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930); C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 4 November 1931, part of lot 318 ('13 Bl... Hoogstraten, Haman vor Ahasver und Esther').
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 November 1974, lot 56 (unsold).

Specialist note

Although the drawing had traditionally been given to Samuel van Hoogstraten, Sumowski (1963, op. cit.) noted that it is related to a painting of the same subject by Jan Victors in the Gemäldegalerie, Kassel (Sumowski, op cit., 1983, no. 1727, illustrated p. 2626. It may be a preparatory idea, but Sumowski notes that Victors frequently revisited and reworked earlier compositons, and so it may be a later reinterpretation of the theme.



Fig. 1. Jan Victors, The Feast of Esther, Kassel, Gemäldegalerie.