Lot 147: *Andries Both (circa 1612-1641) diablerie: a satire on the medical profession. Inscribed: wanneer

*Andries Both (circa 1612-1641) diablerie: a satire on the medical profession. Inscribed: wanneer de doctors kloeck/ versoecken de pasienten/ maer menschen loofse niet/ het sijn als dese venten. Pen and brown ink. 178 by 281mm. Although Both was trained in Utrecht by Abraham Bloemaert, this drawing is strongly influenced by the diableries of Jacques de Gheyn, who settled in Haarlem before Both was born. It is one of a small handful of similarly executed diableries by Both, which may have been created as a series; another is in the Lugt Collection (Institut Neerlandais, Paris, inv.6633), and two more were sold, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 19 February 1942, lot 413, and in these Rooms, 13 January 1989, lot 28. Three further drawings in Berlin (Bock-Rosenberg, p.90, nos.5

*Andries Both (circa 1612-1641)
diablerie: a satire on the medical profession.
Inscribed: wanneer de doctors kloeck/ versoecken de pasienten/ maer menschen loofse niet/ het sijn als dese venten.
Pen and brown ink.
178 by 281mm.
Although Both was trained in Utrecht by Abraham Bloemaert, this drawing is strongly influenced by the diableries of Jacques de Gheyn, who settled in Haarlem before Both was born. It is one of a small handful of similarly executed diableries by Both, which may have been created as a series; another is in the Lugt Collection (Institut Neerlandais, Paris, inv.6633), and two more were sold, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 19 February 1942, lot 413, and in these Rooms, 13 January 1989, lot 28. Three further drawings in Berlin (Bock-Rosenberg, p.90, nos.551, 2265, and 5442), though different in subject-matter (representing Saint John the Baptist Preaching, a Peasant Interior, and A Peasant Standing on a Barrel Disclaiming) are drawn in exactly the same manner, and one of these (Bock-Rosenberg 551) is signed with Both's distinctive monogram, thus confirming the attribution to the artist of the whole of this group of drawings. The inscription on this drawing is a satire on doctors as quacks: 'if doctors dapper urge (invite) the patients, but people don't praise them, they are like these creatures'. *Andries Both (circa 1612-1641)
diablerie: a satire on the medical profession.
Inscribed: wanneer de doctors kloeck/ versoecken de pasienten/ maer menschen loofse niet/ het sijn als dese venten.
Pen and brown ink.
178 by 281mm.
Although Both was trained in Utrecht by Abraham Bloemaert, this drawing is strongly influenced by the diableries of Jacques de Gheyn, who settled in Haarlem before Both was born. It is one of a small handful of similarly executed diableries by Both, which may have been created as a series; another is in the Lugt Collection (Institut Neerlandais, Paris, inv.6633), and two more were sold, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 19 February 1942, lot 413, and in these Rooms, 13 January 1989, lot 28. Three further drawings in Berlin (Bock-Rosenberg, p.90, nos.551, 2265, and 5442), though different in subject-matter (representing Saint John the Baptist Preaching, a Peasant Interior, and A Peasant Standing on a Barrel Disclaiming) are drawn in exactly the same manner, and one of these (Bock-Rosenberg 551) is signed with Both's distinctive monogram, thus confirming the attribution to the artist of the whole of this group of drawings. The inscription on this drawing is a satire on doctors as quacks: 'if doctors dapper urge (invite) the patients, but people don't praise them, they are like these creatures'.