View of Soignies, Hainaut

attributed to Josua de Grave, 1675-08-23

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-1899-A-4253
  • Dimensionsheight 97 mm x width 128 mm
  • Physical characteristicspen and brown ink, with grey wash; framing line in black ink, over traces of brown ink

Identification

  • Title(s)

    View of Soignies, Hainaut

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-T-1899-A-4253

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Creation

  • Creation

    • draftsman (artist): attributed to Josua de Grave, Soignies
    • draftsman (artist): attributed to Barend Klotz

  • Dating

    1675-08-23

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    pen and brown ink, with grey wash; framing line in black ink, over traces of brown ink

  • Dimensions

    height 97 mm x width 128 mm

This work is about

  • Subject

  • Place

Acquisition and rights

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1899-12

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; collection William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25-26 June 1895, no. 289, fl. 20, to H.J. Valk, Amsterdam;{Copy RKD.} from whom acquired by the museum (L. 2228), together with one other drawing, fl. 22:18:- for both, with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, 1899{Copy RMA; For security reasons, the drawing was transferred from the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken to the museum in 1899.}

Documentation

  • R.J.G.M. van Hasselt, Drie tekenaars van topografische prenten in Brabant en elders: Valentijn Klotz, Josua de Grave en Constantijn Huygens Jr., uit: Jaarboek / Oudheidkundige Kring 'De Ghulden Roos', Roosendaal, 25, 1965, pagina 145-192 - afb. 544

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Josua de Grave (attributed to), after Barend Klotz

View of Soignies, Hainaut

Soignies, 1675

Inscriptions

  • inscribed and dated by the artist: upper centre, in brown ink, den 23 Augusti: 1675 / soignies

  • inscribed on verso, in graphite: lower left, J. de Grave; below that, No 267.b

  • stamped on verso: lower right (on a small added strip of paper), with the mark of Pitcairn Knowles (L.2643); lower centre, with the mark of the museum (L. 2228)

Technical notes

watermark: foolscap (fragment)

Condition

Small repaired hole at the upper right

Provenance

…; collection William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25-26 June 1895, no. 289, fl. 20, to H.J. Valk, Amsterdam;1Copy RKD. from whom acquired by the museum (L. 2228), together with one other drawing, fl. 22:18:- for both, with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, 18992Copy RMA; For security reasons, the drawing was transferred from the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken to the museum in 1899.

Object number: RP-T-1899-A-4253

Literature

R.J.G.M. van Hasselt, ‘Drie tekenaars van topografische prenten in Brabant en elders. Valentijn Klotz, Josua de Grave en Constantijn Huygens Jr.’, Jaarboek Oudheidkundige Kring ‘De Ghulden Roos’ 25 (1965), pp. 145-92, no. 544 (as Josua de Grave)

Citation

C. Mensing, 2020, 'attributed to Josua de Grave, View of Soignies, Hainaut, Soignies, 1675-08-23', in J. Turner (ed.), Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200140101

(accessed 29 oktober 2026 02:29:47 UTC+0).

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Footnotes

  • 1Copy RKD.
  • 2Copy RMA; For security reasons, the drawing was transferred from the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken to the museum in 1899.