Lot 129: PAULUS VAN LIENDER UTRECHT 1731 - 1797 HAARLEM

VIEW OF BREUKELEN, WITH THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN TO THE LEFT

VIEW OF BREUKELEN, WITH THE CHURCH OF ST JOHN TO THE LEFT

measurements note
159 by 232mm

bears inscription in brown ink, verso: bleue (?);
bears illegible inscription in black chalk, upper left: edme ... (?)
bears numbering in black ink, lower right of old mount, and attribution in red chalk: N^o 157= Pronck
point of the brush and grey wash, and pen and grey ink, within brown ink framing lines

PROVENANCE

E. Calando (L.837)

NOTE

We are most grateful to Drs. Charles Dumas for confirming the attribution to van Liender, and informing us that the view depicted is Breukelen, a village in the province of Utrecht. Mr Dumas compares our drawing to an earlier depiction of the view (1748) by Jan de Beijer, in the Dutch Royal Collection, The Hague (see H. Romers, J. de Beijer Oeuvre-Catalogue, The Hague 1969, cat. no. 377), and suggests that van Liender owned a sketchbook by de Beijer, which may have contained this scene. Mr Dumas also noted that the church seen to the left is the Dutch Reformed church of St. John the Baptist, built in the 15th Century; the tower was destroyed in a storm of 1702, and that which we see here dates from 1705.