Live Auction 3054The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part IV
Jan Grasdorp (Zwolle 1642-1686)
Lot 174

Jan Grasdorp (Zwolle 1642-1686)

Gerrit Grasdorp disputing with a fishwife in the market at Zwolle

Closed13 May 2015

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Jan Grasdorp (Zwolle 1642-1686)
Gerrit Grasdorp disputing with a fishwife in the market at Zwolle
inscribed 'G. Grasdorp vegt tegen een viswijf. tot Zwol' and signed 'J. Gr.' and with inscription '6 [?] st.'
black and white chalk, grey wash, on blue paper
26.9 x 44.4 cm.

Collection Carl Schöffer, Amsterdam (according to a note in the collection files).
A.N. Godefroy; R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 8-10 May 1900, lot 275 (as Gezina ter Borch).
Anonymous sale; Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 19 January 1904, lot 51 (as Gezina ter Borch; 54 guilders to Frederik Muller).
Collection H. H. (?) Lugard, Deventer; from whom purchased by I.Q. van Regteren Altena on 2 April for 50 guilders (Inventory book: '289. t. J. Grasdorp. vischmarkt').

Specialist note

Jan Grasdorp was a member of a family from Zwolle which produced many artists, like his great uncle Engbert (circa 1610-1685) (for an example of Engbert's draughtsmanship see Two peasants near the gateway to a farmyard from the I.Q. van Regteren Altena Sale, Part II, Christie's, Amsterdam, 10 December 2014, lot 209). According to the inscription this lively market scene shows 'G. Grasdorp' fighting with a fishwife. This could refer to the artist Gerrit Grasdorp (1659-1716) who possibly was Jan's brother. The work of both Jan and Gerrit show the influence of the Ter Borch family who were also active in Zwolle. The present drawing is, for example, stylistically close to the Marketplace with a crier by Gerard ter Borch II (1617-1681) in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. A 824; A. McNeil Kettering, Drawings from the ter Borch Studio Estate, The Hague, 1988, I, no. 39).