Gezicht op Cochin

Gezicht op Cochin

NG-1985-7-3-139

Gezicht op de kust en de stad Cochin (Malabar) in het zuiden van India, van de zeezijde te zien.

inscription: ‘Cochin’

• draftsman (artist): Jan Brandes, Sri Lanka
• after drawing by anonymous, Kochi

1785

penseel in grijs over schets in potlood

height 238 mm x width 810 mm

Brandes is nooit te Cochin geweest en heeft dit naar een voorbeeld getekend. Vergelijk het gezicht op Cochin in Cornelis de Bruyn. [Max de Bruijn, 1994]

1700 - 1800

purchase 1985-05-02

Public domain

? Collection of the artist; his daughters, Johanna Maria Brandes (1792-1813) and Charlotta Constantia Brandes (1796-1870), Skälsebo;{De Bruijn/Raben 2004, p. 93.} by descent to Erik Kellberg (1883-1960);{De Bruijn/Raben 2004, p. 93.} ? to Brite-Louise Mangs-Kellberg;{File RMA.}…; anonymous sale, London (Sotheby’s), 2 May 1985 sqq., no. 216, £ 50,000, with xx other drawings, to the dealer W. Graham Arader III, New York, for the Rijksmuseum, in exchange for eighteen drawings that were part of this lot, 1985

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