View of a Farmyard

View of a Farmyard

RP-T-1899-A-4280

draftsman (artist): Jan van Kessel

after 1665 - 1669

black chalk, with grey wash; framing line in brown ink (left, right, and lower border) and brown ink and graphite (upper border)

height 200 mm x width 298 mm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1899-12

Public domain

…; collection Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-98), Amsterdam (L. 3002-4); his sale, Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 3 March 1800 sqq., Album L, no. 35 (‘Een boeren Werf, met Geboomten, Schuuren en Woningen; zeer natuurlyk met O.I. Inkt, door J. van Kessel.’), fl. 38, to ‘Roos’;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Jacob Helmolt (1747-1808), Haarlem (L. 2986b);{Not in his sale, Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 11 April 1810 sqq.} …; ? sale, B. de Bosch (1742-1816, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 10 March 1817, Album A, no. 32 (‘Jan van Kessel. Gezigt van eene boerenwerf met houten schuren en hoog geboomte, als boven, h. 7 ¾, br. 11 5/8 d.’), fl. 37:10, to Abraham Jacob Saportas (1777-1836, Amsterdam);{Copy RKD.} ? his sale, Amsterdam (De Vries et al.), 14 May 1832, Album G, no. 41 (‘Een Boerenwerf, als voren, […] door J. van Kessel’) fl. 4, to Albertus Brondgeest (1786-1849, Amsterdam);{Copy RKD.} …; sale, Jacob de Vos Jbzn (1803-78, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 22 May 1883 sqq., no. 266 (‘Jean van Kessel. Fossé au centre d’un Village. - Cour d’une Ferme. - Deux dessins. A la pierre noire et à l’encre de Chine’), fl. 64, to Henri Duval, Liège;{Copy RKD.} …; collection William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25-6 June 1895, no. 356, fl. 10, with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, to the museum (L. 2228), 1899

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