Lot 665: HERMANUS PETRUS SCHOUTEN

HERMANUS PETRUS SCHOUTEN AMSTERDAM 1747 - 1822 HAARLEM VIEW OF A CITY SQUARE, WITH THE RUINED WEIDENBACH CLOISTER TO THE LEFT AND ST. PANTELEON, COLOGNE, BEHIND, AFTER VAN DER HEYDEN Watercolor over black chalk; signed, lower right: H:P:Schouten, inscribed, lower left: VHeyde, and signed, dated and inscribed, verso : H:P: Schouten 1805 / Na het Originele Schildery / van J. van der Heiden (the last line slightly cut to bottom) 342 by 495 mm; 13 1/2 by 19 1/2 in

The painting by Van der Heyden, which this beautiful watercolor records, is in a private collection.υ1 In the second half of the 18th century a fashion developed for exquisite watercolour copies of 17th-century paintings, and examples of this type of work are known by most of the leading Dutch draughtsmen of the period, such as Aert Schouman and Jacob Cats.υ2

1. See P. Sutton, Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712), exhib. cat., Greenwich CT, Bruce Museum, and Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 2006-7, pp. 156-7, no. 21, reproduced
2. See, for example the watercolours by Schouman after Jan Steen, and by Cats after Gerrit Dou, formerly in the Otto Naumann Collection, sale, New York, Sotheby's, 25 January 2007, lots 110-111