Lot 335: CHRISTIAAN ANDRIESSEN AMSTERDAM 1775 - 1846

inscribed in black ink on the box: ..kist met Schildereien/ bezorgen aan de Heer/ J Andriessen/ konstschilder/ op de Binnen Amstel/..usschen de Prinsegragt/ en Kerkstraat/ te/ N^o190 Amsteldam and along the lower edge: 19 Sept ; je moest hem maar zo omkantelen / heeft gekost van Düsseldorp aan vragt f 27. 12 (the 12 deleted and the 7 written over a 6)

bears attribution in brown ink, verso: J. Andriessen
pen and grey ink and wash and watercolour
Inv.nr. N 334

182 by 256 mm.

Amsterdam/Dordrecht 1994-5, cat. no. 62

I.H. van Eeghen, ' In mijn journaal gezet'; Amsterdam 1805-1808, Het getekende dagboek van Christiaan Andriessen, Amsterdam/Alphen aan den Rijn 1983, p. 231

By descent in the artist's family;
their sale, Amsterdam, De Vries, 16-17 February 1903, lot 363 (as J. Andriessen);
Professor Dr. I.Q. van Regteren Altena, Amsterdam

See note to the previous lot.

The crate of paintings that Andriessen here shows arriving at his father's house in Amsterdam almost certainly contained copies that he himself had made of paintings in the famous Düsseldorf Gallery, which he is known to have visited, in the company of the Leeuwaarden artist Willem Bartel van der Kooi and his pupil, Carel Jacob Baar van Slangenburgh. Andriessen himself wrote in 1840 that this visit had taken place in 1805, but the other two artists both state that it was actually in 1804; since Andriessen's illustrated diary begins on 1 January 1805, and contains no record of a visit to Düsseldorf, it seems likely that the artists did indeed make their journey in 1804. It is therefore also reasonable to conclude that the present drawing dates from September 1805, rather than a later year.