Lot 276: Pieter Holsteyn II (Haarlem c. 1614 - 1673)

Nine scenes from the Book of Genesis: The Separation of the Waters and the Sky; The Creation of the Sun, the Moon and the Stars; The Creation of the Animals; The Creation of the Birds of the Air; The Creation of Man and of Woman; The Temptation of Adam; The Expulsion from Paradise; The Family of Adam Tilling the Soil; and The Murder of Abel
signed 'PH. fe' (1 and 5) and 'PHolsteijn fe: ' (2-4, 6-7 and 9)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour, bodycolour, heightened with gold, pen and brown ink and gold framing lines, framed together as a triptych
each approximately 133 x 96 mm. (9)

Jonas Witsen (1733-1788), Mayor of Amsterdam;
Amsterdam, 16 August 1790, lots 47-51.
Pieter van Buren, Secretary of the State of Holland and West Friesland, to his daughter
Catherina Regina, wife of Charles Alexander Chais, in 1795, to their granddaughter
Maria Regina Chais van Buren, wife of Jan Fabius, in 1876, to their son
Lieutenant-General H.A.C. Fabius, Baarn, by 1942, and then by descent to the present owner.

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