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| Auction House | Schley (Philippus); Bosch (Jan); Pruyssenaar (Roelof Meurs); Roos (Cornelis Sebille); Vinkeles (Jacobus); Yver (Jan) -- from catalog: Philippus van der Schley; Jan de Bosch, Jeronimusz.; Roeloff Meurs Pruyssenaar; Cornelis Sebille Roos; Jacobus Vinkeles; Jan Yver | | Sale Location | Ten Huize van C.S. Roos, op de Cloveniers Burgwal, in 't Huis van Trip, Amsterdam, Netherlands | | Seller(s) | Pruyssenaar, J.C.
Roos, Cornelis Sebille
from catalog: J.C. Pruyssenaar
from auctioneer's copy: R[oos] | | Lugt Number | 6747 | | No. of Painting Lots | 190 | | Notes | The contents of this sale were paintings, drawings and prints, as well as some scientific instruments and miscellaneous objects. Of these, the drawings constituted by far the largest portion. The title page of the catalogue gives the name of just one seller, J.C. Pruyssenaar, but three copies of the catalogue that belonged originally to the dealers who organized the sale are annotated with letters next to the individual lots indicating that six consignments were included. These are designated A, B, C, D, F and R. The title page of the catalogue mentions first "een fraaye verzameling Schilderyen" that was to be sold, in addition to which ("beneevens") there was "een keurige en uitgezochte collectie gekouleurde en ongekouleurde Teekeningen, en eenige Prent-Kunst...Rariteiten...in veele Jaaren by een vergaderd, door den Kunst Minaar J.C. Pruyssenaar." This seems to imply that Pruyssenaar was the owner of the drawings and prints rather than paintings, a conclusion supported by the fact that the largest consignment, the one designated "A," included no paintings. It seems probable, therefore, that "A" was J.C. Pruyssenaar and that none of the paintings in this sale were his. This is perhaps complicated by the fact that two of the paintings in the "B" consignment had been purchased by "Pruyssenaar" at a sale on August 17, 1803 (no.63), but none of the remaining 87 lots in this consignment can be associated with him, nor do the other 12 lots purchased by Pruyssenaar at the 1803 sale appear here. It is likely, moreover, that these transactions, as well as the more than 600 transactions recorded in the name of "Pruyssenaar" between 1801 and 1804, are attributable to Roeloff Meurs Pruyssenaar, one of the co-organizers of the sale and presumably a relation of J.C. Pruyssenaar. It is noteworthy that all but three of these transactions took place at sales at which R.M. Pruyssenaar was one of the organizers. (The only exceptions are two lots purchased in 1801 at an Amsterdam sale directed by the dealer Jan Yver, and a single painting purchased in Utrecht in 1802, where Pruyssenaar's name is followed by "Amst.") Further substantiation is provided by the fact that Pruyssenaar's name ceased to appear as either seller or buyer after 1804, when R.M. Pruyssenaar discontinued organizing sales, perhaps a result of retirement or death. The name of J.C. Pruyssenaar appears just once more, in association with a sale held on November 27ff., 1814, that again consisted primarily of drawings. Although the distribution of ownership at this latter sale is not yet clarified, it seems probable that J.C. Pruyssenaar was primarily a collector of drawings and prints, and that his activity extended at least ten years longer than that of R.M. Pruyssenaar.
Unfortunately, it is still not possible to identify the owners of most of the remaining consignments, four of which, B, C, D, and R, included paintings. The "B" consignment of 89 lots was the largest; besides the two paintings mentioned above that can be traced to [R.M.] Pruyssenaar, four other lots appear to derive from the sale held in The Hague on August 24, 1803 (no.64), at which time they were bought (or bought in) by I. Kann. The connection is tenuous, however. The "C" consignment, containing 62 lots, included five paintings that had been very recently purchased by three dealers, permitting no conclusions to be drawn. It is possible to suggest, however, that "R" was the dealer Cornelis Sebille Roos, in part because the major lot in this consignment, a depiction of The Continence of Scipio by Jan Steen, was bought in by Roos, and also because the letter "R" falls out of sequence, an indication that it was an initial and not arbitrarily selected. Judging from the prices, the sale contained few works of great value. Only three lots exceeded fl. 200, one of which, the picture by Jan Steen mentioned above, was bought in (at fl. 285). The highest price, fl. 700, was paid by the Brussels dealer Burggraaff for a Falcon Hunt by Philips Wouwerman, while an Interior with Men and Women by Ter Borch was sold for fl. 225. With the exception of the painting by Steen -- which was on the London art market in 1970 -- and a Portrait of a Man by Ferdinand Bol (now in the Rijksmuseum), hardly any of the pictures in the sale have been traced. The total receipts came to fl. 13538:15, of which fl. 8700:1 were dispersed to "A" and fl. 1116:15 to "F" for drawings and prints. The 190 lots of paintings, therefore, realized just fl. 3721:19. (B. Fredericksen) | | Catalog Location(s) | LBDa [annotations used in Sales Contents] Auctioneer's copy, annot. with all buyers and prices on interleaved pages as well as letters for the sellers. The title page is lacking. It may have belonged to the dealer P. van der Schley.
RKDH [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Auctioneer's copy, annot. with all buyers and prices on interleaved pages as well as letters for the sellers. It belonged to the dealer C.S. Roos.
FLNY Auctioneer's copy, annot. with all buyers and sellers on interleaved pages, as well as letters for the sellers. It consists of only the first part with 28 pages, although the annotations for many subsequent lots are also present.
MB Annot. in pencil with most buyers and prices. It belonged to the dealer P.J. Thijs and the annotations are his.
AA Annot. with some buyers and all prices.
EBNP Auctioneer's copy, annot. with a few buyers, all prices and initials for the names of the sellers. Most of the annotations are in pencil.
MA Not annot.
NGL Not annot. | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - Frick | | | |
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