Head of a Man in a Cap, Drawing or Writing

Head of a Man in a Cap, Drawing or Writing

RP-T-1940-2

Portret van Hendrick Avercamp, die ook bekend stond als ‘de Stomme van Kampen’ waarschijnlijk omdat hij door zijn doofheid niet verbaal communiceerde. (Portret van Gerard ter Borch I ?)

• draftsman (artist): attributed to Hendrick Avercamp
• draftsman (artist): Gerard van der Horst

• 1592 - 1629
• c. 1620

pen and brown ink, with watercolour; framing line in dark brown ink

height 0 mm x width 120 mm

Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

purchase 1940

Public domain

…; sale, Willem Frederik Piek (1838-1916, Oudshoorn), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 1 June 1897 sqq., no. 2 (‘Le portrait du maître. Avercamp s'est représenté en âge déjà avancé, vu des trois-quarts, assis et dessinant, la tête couverte d'un bonnet pointu. Au revers du dessin, on lit: Hendricus Avercamp sijnde de stom van Kampen. Plume et lavis. - Hauteur to, largeur 12 cent’), fl. 18, to ‘Valk for G[erritsen]’;{Copy RKD.} sale, Antonius Wilhelmus Mari Mensing et al. [section Hermanus Philippus Gerritsen (1850-1917, The Hague)], 29 November (1 December) 1939 sqq., no. 98, with over 2,100 other objects, bought in at fl. 3,000;{Copy RKD.} purchased from the auction house F. Muller, fl. 3,725, en bloc, to the dealer P. Brandt, Amsterdam, for the museum (L. 2228), 1940, with support from the F.G. Wallerfonds

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