| | | | | | | | Document | Sale Catalog N-369 | |
| Auction House | Schley (Philippus); Vries (Jeronimo) -- from catalog: Philippus van der Schley; Jeronimo de Vries | | Sale Location | Huize Coclers, Doelestraat, no.22, Amsterdam, Netherlands | | Seller(s) | Coclers, Louis-Bernard
from catalog: monsieur L.B. Coclers, peintre | | Lugt Number | 8860 | | Notes | AA gives the totals as f 29,539. MPA gives the totals as 12595.17. MA gives total as 12595.17.
[Preliminary notes B Fredericksen] This was the last major sale held by Louis Bernard Coclers (1740-April 1817), a painter from Liege who went to Paris in 1795 where he was active both as artist and dealer under the revolutionary government. Until 1802 his base of activities remained in Paris, but in that same year he is also recorded as organizing sales in Amsterdam where he also made his permanent resodemce some time thereafter. Many of the paintings in the present sale had first been left unsold at an earlier sale in 1811 (N-200) but others were apparently more recent additions. The original source for his pictures is often unknown, but while a few can be traced to sales in Paris, the majority seem to have come from private transactions in the Low Countries. The results in 1816 no doubt benefited from the cessation of hostilities and prices were reasonably good, although few lots in the sale stand out as exceptionally successful. The best price (fl. 2060) was paid by the dealer Nieuwenhuys for a landscape by Hobbema whose earlier history and present location are both uncertain. A painting of a lion thought to be by Rembrandt that Coclers apparently bought at auction in 1813 for as little as fl. 70 was supposedly sold now for fl.. 1550, but since it reappeared in 1819 as part of Coclers' estate the present transaction was evidently not genuine. (Nor is the painting accepted as the work of Rembrandt in more recent literature.) Similarly, a painting of the Madonna and Child by Rubens (lot 89) was supposedly sold for fl. 7700, by far the highest price in the sale, but it too was not in fact sold | | Catalog Location(s) | SMLn Auctioneer's copy, annot. on interleaved pages with all buyers and prices for the paintings. The other parts are annot. in pencil with some buyers and prices. It apparently belonged to the dealer Huybregts.
MA Auctioneer's copy, annot. with all buyers and prices on interleaved pages. It was formerly NA. (French edition)
AA Annot. with all buyers and prices. (French edition) ***
ESP II Annot. in pencil with most buyers and prices, but many were cut off when the volume was bound. It was formerly KKB. (French edition)
BMPL Annot. with most buyers and all prices for the paintings. The remainder is annot. with some buyers and most prices. (French edition)
EBNP Annot. with a few buyers and all prices. (French edition)
ESP I Annot. with all buyers and prices for the paintings only. (French edition)
RKDH Annot. in pencil with the buyers and prices for the prints. The paintings are not annot. (French edition)
MB Annot. in pencil with most prices. (French edition)
JPGM Not annot.
FLNY Not annot. (French edition)
LRB Present location unknown. According to Lugt annot. with buyers and prices.
MPA Auctioneer's copy, annot. with all buyers and prices on interleaved pages
MR Not annot. excepting a few prices for the prints. (French edition) | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - GRI | | | Digitized Catalog - Frick | | | |
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