Smoking Peasant, Seated, Facing Right, on an Upturned Half Barrel

Smoking Peasant, Seated, Facing Right, on an Upturned Half Barrel

RP-T-1947-35

• draftsman (artist): attributed to Hendrik Potuyl, Amsterdam (possibly)
• draftsman (artist): Hendrick Martensz Sorgh [rejected attribution]

c. 1637 - c. 1650

black chalk, on vellum; framing line in dark grey ink, partially over black chalk; traces of gold border on left edge

height 104 mm x width 80 mm

purchase 1947

Public domain

…; collection Johann Edler Goll von Franckenstein (1722-85), Amsterdam and Velsen (L. 2987); ? his son, Jonkheer Johan Goll van Franckenstein (1756-1821), Amsterdam and Velsen; ? his son, Jonkheer Pieter Hendrick Goll van Franckenstein (1787-1832), Amsterdam and Velsen;{Not identified in sale, Jonkheer Johan Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam (J. de Vries et al.), 1 July 1833 sqq.}…; sale, Hendrik van Eyl Sluyter (1739-1814, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (Ph. van der Schley et al.), 26 September 1814, Album L, no. 60 (‘Een op zijn gemaak zittend Huisman, zijn Pijp rookende. Met zwart krijt op parkament, door H.M. Zorg’), fl. 12:5:-, to ‘Coclers’;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Johan Gijsbert Baron Verstolk, Heer van Soelen en Aldenhaag (1776-1845), The Hague and Soelen, near Tiel;{According to the catalogue for the sale, Barthold Suermondt, Frankfurt-am-Main (F.A.C. Prestel), 5 May 1879 sqq., no. 163; not identified in his sale, Amsterdam (J. de Vries et al.), 22 March 1847.} …; ? sale, Dirk Vis Blokhuyzen (1799-1869, Rotterdam), Rotterdam (D.A. Lamme and A.C. van Wijngaarden), 23 October 1871 sqq., no. 123 (‘A. Brouwer. Etudes de paysans. Deux dessins. A la pierre noire’), with one other drawing, fl. 16, to Barthold Suermondt (1818-87), Aachen (L. 415);{Note RMA.} his sale, Frankfurt-am-Main (F.A.C. Prestel), 5 May 1879 sqq., no. 163 (‘Sorgh (Henri Martin). Fumeur assis sur une cuve renversée, dirigé vers la droite. Etude à la pierre noire. Coll. Verstolk, Blockhuysen. H. 0,103. - L. 0,078.’), 36 DM, to William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643);{Copy RKD.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 610 (‘Hendrik Maertensz Sorg. Fumeur assis sur une cuve renversée. Collections Verstolk de Zoelen et Suermondt. Pierre noire sur vélin. - H. 10, l. 8 cent.’), fl. 21, to Pieter Langerhuizen Lzn (1839-1918), ‘Crailoo’, near Bussum;{Copy RMA.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 29 April 1919 sqq., no. 722 (‘Hendrik Martensz. Sorgh. Fumeur assis sur une cuve renversée, dirigé vers la droite. Pierre noire sur vélin. - Hauteur 8, largeur 10,5 centimètres. Collections Sluiter, Verstolk, Blockhuyzen, Suermondt et Knowles’), fl. 30, to August Wilhelm Volz (1873-1944), The Hague;{Copy RMA.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 15 April 1947 sqq., no. 412, fl. 140, through the mediation of the dealer 'van Groeningen', to the museum (L. 2228), 1947

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