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Lambert Doomer (Amsterdam 1624-1700)
Lot 93

Lambert Doomer (Amsterdam 1624-1700)

The Sankt Aposteln basilica, Cologne, seen from the North (recto); A partial study of the same (verso)

Closed9 December 2015

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Lambert Doomer (Amsterdam 1624-1700)
The Sankt Aposteln basilica, Cologne, seen from the North (recto); A partial study of the same (verso)
inscribed 'S. Qurijeen te Kuelen' and with inscription 'S gorge' (verso)
black chalk, brown and grey wash, brown ink framing lines, Strasburg lily with letters WR (recto); black chalk (verso)
14 ½ x 10 ¼ in. (36.6 x 26 cm.)

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-1798) (L. 2118a), possibly with his inscriptions; 'h 14 dm/ b 10 d' and 'K: N 7/ aa/ Doomer/ N65-0'; possibly Philippe van der Schley, Amsterdam, 3 March 1800, Kunstboek K, lot 31 ('De Dom te Keulen, met Sappen, door J. Doomer') or Kunstboek O, lot 16 ('Een Gezigt binnen Keulen; gewasschen met O.I. Inkt en dun gecouleurd, door Doomer').

Specialist note

Another drawing by Doomer showing the basilica from the same angle, but with additional buildings to the right and left, is in the Klassik Stiftung Weimar (inv. 4892; W. Schulz, op. cit., no. 307 and W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York, 1979, II, no. 422). That drawing also bears the inscription 'S. Qurijeen te Keulen', although this time on the recto. While both inscriptions suggest that the drawings depict a church for Quirinus, they clearly show the Sankt Aposteln basilica in Cologne which still stands today. Schulz (op. cit.) considered the Weimar drawing to be a replica dating from the early 1670s of a lost drawing of the Rhine journey of about 1663.