Jan Boeckhorst
Une Vue du Marché aux legumes de la ville d’Anvers (A View to the Vegetable Market in the town of Antwerp)
Artist
Jan BoeckhorstFlemish, 1605–1668
ArtistPreviously attributed to
Sir Peter Paul RubensFlemish, 1577–1640
CultureFlemish
Titles
- Une Vue du Marché aux legumes de la ville d’Anvers (A View to the Vegetable Market in the town of Antwerp)
Datepossibly c. 1626–1635
MediumPen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 6 1/8 × 7 1/2 in. (15.6 × 19.1 cm)
Mat: 12 5/8 × 13 1/2 in. (32.1 × 34.3 cm)
Mat: 12 5/8 × 13 1/2 in. (32.1 × 34.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Will L. McLendon in memory of Arthur Tafolla
Object number2020.500
Not on view
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1 Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694-1774) was the third generation in a family of print dealers. He became an important authority on the history of painting, drawings, and in particular, engravings. He also had a reputation as an antiquarian, writing a treatise on antique gems. Besides the important drawings collector Pierre Crozat, Mariette’s collection of drawings and engravings was probably the greatest of this period. During his lifetime, Mariette refused any offers made for works in his collection and wished for it to pass to the French Royal Collection upon his death. Despite his wish, Mariette’s heirs finally chose to auction the collection, anticipating a high total price. Four sales were held, the largest and the most important taking place between November 15, 1775 and January 30, 1776. Princeton University Library owns two copies of the Catalogue raisonné, prepared by the dealer Pierre François Basan, in 1775. Both copies have prices. See Frits Lugt, Les marques de collections de dessins et d’estampes (Amsterdam, 1921), pp. 331-338 (Lugt 1852), Frits Lugt, Repertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques interessant l’art ou la curiosité, I, 1600-1825 (The Hague, 1938), Cat. 2453 and Graham Smith, “Á Copy of the Mariette Sale Catalogue of 1775 with Annotations by Sir. Thomas Lawrence,” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 30, no. 2 (Winter 1969), pp. 110-119. His collector’s stamp is the following:
Fig 10 Mariette’s collector’s mark, Lugt 1852
See Pierre-François Basan, Catalogue Raisonné des différens objets de curiosités dans les sciences et arts, qui composaient le
Cabinet de feu Mr Mariette (Paris: chez l’Auteur et chez Guillaume-Nicolas Desprez, 1775), “Hollandoise & Allemande” 155, p. 207, lot 1006.
2 His important art collection was sold by the Paris art dealers P. Remy in 1777 and Boileau in 1779. See JoLynn Edwards, “The Conti Sales of 1777 and 1779 and their Impact on the Parisian Art Market,” Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture (John Hopkins University Press), vol. 39, 2010, pp. 77-110. When the drawing was sold in 1777, it appeared as lot 1160 and the catalogue entry referred to its earlier appearance in the Mariette sale (see Lugt Répertoire des catalogues de ventes, I, Cat. 2671.
3A note in the copy of the De Conti catalogue in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana gives a M. Langlier as the buyer. See Lugt Les marques de collections, Cat. 1670. He was a dealer whose name appears as a seller, along with those of other dealers, in sales made in Paris in 1779, March 10, 1788 (after the death of Mme Lenglier, April 6 (15) 1789, even again on November 29, 1810.
4 On Sir Thomas Lawrence as a collector, see Kenneth Garlick, Sir Thomas Lawrence (London, 1954), Mahonri Sharp Young, “Sir Thomas Lawrence, R.A.: millionaire collector,” Art News, LIV (1955-1956), 24-27, 56-57; The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Sir Thomas Lawrence as painter and collector (1955).
Fig. 11 Thomas Lawrence, collector’s mark, Lugt 2445
5 Earl of Warwick (1818-1893), Warwickcastle, Warwick
Fig. 12, The Earl of Warwick, collector’s mark, Lugt 2600
The old master drawings in the Earl of Warwick collection had several appearing in the Grosvenor Gallery exhibition in London, 1877-1878; some are reproduced in the exhibition catalogue.
6Jean-Paul Richter (1847-1937) was a German art historian, born in Dresden. He moved to London in 1877 and wrote several art catalogues and chiefly remembered for his work on the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. Richter supported himself as an art dealer.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Collector's mark, stamped in black ink, bottom left: M [encircled] [Lugt 1852: Jean-Pierre Mariette (1694-1774)]
Recto: Collector's mark, embossed, bottom left: T.L [Lugt 2445: Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)]
Recto: Collector's mark, stamped in black ink, bottom left: W with crown above [Lugt 2600: Earl of Warwick (1818-1893)]
Recto: Collector's mark, embossed, bottom left: T.L [Lugt 2445: Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)]
Recto: Collector's mark, stamped in black ink, bottom left: W with crown above [Lugt 2600: Earl of Warwick (1818-1893)]
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