Jan Weissenbruch (The Hague 1822-1880)
Lot 187

Jan Weissenbruch (The Hague 1822-1880)

Leydshendam: a view of the Delftsekade, Leidschendam

Closed24 June 2015

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Jan Weissenbruch (The Hague 1822-1880)
Leydshendam: a view of the Delftsekade, Leidschendam
signed 'Jan Weissenbruch. f' (lower left)
oil on canvas
56 x 80 cm.
Painted circa 1850.

(Possibly) with Goupil & Cie, The Hague, by 1862, as: Leydshendam.
(Possibly) acquired from the above by Mr. M. le Marquis d’Harcourt (Francs 640).
The British sculptor Sir George Frampton RA (1860–1928), St. John's Wood, by 1922, and thence by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

Depicted is a view of the Dutch village Leidschendam along the river Vliet between Leiden and Rijswijk. Weissenbruch shows us two of the well known three bridges 'de drie bruggetjes'. At the left side he depicted the reformed church (so-called Peperbus) and at the right side, the sunlit Delftsekade with numerous figures. A lithograph after this painting was published in the Kunstkronijk, 1857, pp. 94-95, ill. 24.

Please compare to a painting by the same hand with a similar composition titled Vue du Leidschendam sold in these rooms on 21 November 2013, lot 205 (see: Laanstra 1986, no: O/17 5-1, (panel, 17,5 x 24 cm.) and a preliminary drawing with the same composition in the collection of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum (see: Laanstra 1986, p. 30, no. 7).