Lot 61: PIETER JANSZ. COOPSE HOORN 1638 - 1673

FISHING BOATS AND MERCHANT SHIPS ON THE IJ BEFORE AMSTERDAM

FISHING BOATS AND MERCHANT SHIPS ON THE IJ BEFORE AMSTERDAM

measurements note
109 by 222mm

signed in black ink, lower left: P: Coopse: f^c

pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, within brown ink framing lines

PROVENANCE

Jacob de Vos Jbzn., sale of his collection, Amsterdam, Roos/Muller, 22-24 May 1883, lot 114 (with another, sold to Knowles);
William Pitcairn Knowles (L.2643), sale of his collection, Amsterdam, F. Muller, 25-26 June 1895, lot 158 (with another);
sale, Amsterdam, F. Muller, 16-17 May 1899, lot 36 (with another);
Bernard Houthakker (L.1272), sale of his collection, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 17-18 November 1975, lot 145

EXHIBITED

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, De verzameling van Bernard Houthakker, 1964, cat. no. 22

NOTE

The pendant to this drawing, with which it was sold in 1883, 1895 and 1899 (see Provenance) recently reappeared at auction (Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 4 November 2003, lot 86). Together, these two highly atmospheric river views are amongst the finest known drawings by this talented but short-lived artist. The distant view of Amsterdam seen here is familiar from the works of a number of Coopse's contemporaries, and Ludolf Bakhuizen in particular.