Lot 113: PHILIP TIDEMAN HAMBURG 1657 - 1705 AMSTERDAM

signed and dated, lower left: P. Tideman fec. Anno 1690

pen and black ink and grey wash, over traces of black chalk
Inv.nr. N 227

290 by 366 mm.

Amsterdam/Dordrecht 1994-5, cat. no. 25

J. van Tatenhove, 'Notities over tekeningen van Philip Tideman (1)', in Delineavit et Sculpsit, no. 1 (August 1989), p. 16, note 10

Pieter van den Brande and/or Johan Pieter van den Brande, Middelburg;
By descent to E.C. Baron van Pallandt, his sale, Amsterdam, Mak van Waay, 26 September 1972, lot 367

Until the various recent publications of Janno van Tatenhove and Robert-Jan te Rijdt, Tideman's drawing style was little known (see J. van Tatenhove, loc. cit., pp. 7-17, and further publications by the same author and by Robert-Jan te Rijdt, all in Delineavit et Sculpsit, no. 2 (December 1989), pp. 26-31, no. 3 (June 1990), pp. 16-23, no. 4 (December 1990), p. 34, and R.J.A. te Rijdt, in Delineavit et Sculpsit, no. 8 (October 1992), pp. 33-35, no. 11 (December 1993), p.29, no. 17 (March 1997), pp. 32, 35 and 52, no. 18 (November 1997), pp. 47-8, no. 19 (November 1998), pp. 15, 32 and 34). Tideman was a pupil of Gerard de Lairesse, and may have taken his extremely rare subject (otherwise almost unknown in the art of the Netherlands) from its description in the writings of his teacher. Stylisticaly, this large, highly worked-up drawing is unusual in Tideman's work, as most of his drawings are rather smaller and sketchier.

Regarding the provenance, see also lots 43 and 92.