Live Auction 3054The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part IV
Johannes de Bosch (Amsterdam 1713-1785)
Lot 28

Johannes de Bosch (Amsterdam 1713-1785)

Design for a title page: 'Arkadische landschappen'

Closed13 May 2015

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Johannes de Bosch (Amsterdam 1713-1785)
Design for a title page: 'Arkadische landschappen'
inscribed 'ARKADISCHE / LANDSCHAPPEN / door J. De Bosch.' on a cartouche and dated '15 Maart 1763' and numbered 'N:449' and '514' (verso)
pen and black ink, brush and grey and brown wash, black ink framing lines on grey paper
24.5 x 18.5 cm.

possibly the artist's posthumous sale; van der Schley et al., Amsterdam, 23 May 1785, Album O or P.
Jacob de Vos Jbzn. (1803-1882) (according to a note in the collection files).
with M. Elte, The Hague; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena on 28 October 1929 for 5 guilders (Inventory book: 't. J. de Bosch Arkadisch landschapje').

Specialist note

Like almost all of de Bosch's arcadian landscapes, this drawing is dated and numbered. Why de Bosch numbered his drawings is not known, but R.-J. te Rijdt has suggested that it might have enabled the amateur draughtsman to track his progress as an artist (R.-J. te Rijdt, Keuze uit de Vlaamse en Hollandse tekeningen van de Stichting Jean van Caloen, exh. cat., Loppem, Stichting Jean van Caloen, 1997, pp. 57-8). De Bosch made his drawings exclusively for his own pleasure and not for commercial reasons; the well-to-do amateur did not depend on his artistic career for a living, and was employed as assistant-book-keeper at the Amsterdamse Wisselbank.