Tekeningen & schilderijen 20ste eeuw – Dessins & peintures XX e s.594ZACK, Léon - 3 aquarelles monochromes figurant despersonnages de l’Antiquité. S.d.Traits à l’encre brune ou noire sur lavis à l’encre brune ou noire, sur 2 ff. de papiervergé 48 x 31 cm (lég. brunies). Retenues par les bords sup. sous passe-partout.120 / 200 €founding members of the secessionist group «Les XX» and later one of thecreators of the Luminist style.593VAN STRYDONCK, Guillaume - 3 drawings of women. C. 1900-1915 ?Drawings, graphite pencil. Stuck by upper edges under passe-partout.600 / 800 €1. Woman playing piano. 20,3 x 16,5 cm, signed (frayed esp. on left edge).—2. Woman lying asleep on a sofa. 14 x 20 cm, laid paper, signed.— 3. Threequarterview of a woman’s face. 20,4 x 16,2 cm, signed (frayed edges esp. leftand right).Joined, same artist, 4 sketches, graphite pencil, unsigned (frayed edges): 1. Oldwoman on a couch, near a window. 16,5 x 20,5 cm.— 2. Woman and child. 26,5x 16,5 cm.— 3. Couple [seated near the seaside ?]. 23,3 x 31,4 cm (tear at upperedge).— 4. In a port, two men in bathing suits are about to board a canoe. 16,5x 20,5 cm. (7 pcs).1. Homme barbu assis et jeune garçon lui lavant les pieds, agenouillé prèsd’un vase. Encre noire, 18 x 23 cm, signée en bas à dr. 2. Verso : Mêmes thème,dimension et technique, non signé.— 3. Couple, les bras à demi pliés. Encrebrune, 26 x 17 cm, non signée.Prov. Van Loock (Lugt 3751) sur les dessins n° 2 et 3.178 • ARENBERG AUCTIONS • 19.10.2019
Plaques de cuivre – Collection E.S. – Koperplaten – Verzameling E.S.Koperplaten – Verzameling E.S.Plaques de cuivre – Collection E.S.A remarkable private Brussels collection of engravedprinting plates, mainly from the 17th and 18th century:coats of arms (mostly from the southern Netherlands),portraits, religious scenes, picturesque views ... by renownedartists from France and the Low Countries.595Antique vase in the Villa d’Este in Tivoli. [18th c.].23 x 23 cm.150 / 200 €Large and detailed view of the vase with decoration showing three putti pickinggrapes. Below, the caption: «Vaso antico che esistera in / Villa d’Este in Tivoli».On the top: mentions for the placement of the plate («T. III / 57»).596AUDRAN, Gérard and Jean - 2 plates with scenes from the lifeof Christ. Paris, [18th c.].(Some stains).450 / 600 €Two beautiful works respectively by Gérard Audran (1640-1703), engraver tothe king, and by his nephew Jean (1667-1756): 1. G. Audran, after a paintingby Nicolas Poussin - Christ and the woman taken in adultery. 28 x 36,5 cm.Engr. in the same direction as the original painted in 1653 (Louvre Museum).Later (?) mention «A Paris chez Mondhare rue S.t Jacques», editor active at thisaddress from 1759 to 1780. Caption: «Les scribes et les pharisiens amenèrent àJésus une femme surprise en adultère, essayant de le surprendre, afin d’avoir /occasion de l’accuser, et Jésus leur dit. Que celui d’entre vous qui est sans péchélui jette la premiere pierre. En S.t Jean chap. 8».— 2. J. Audran, after a paintingby Pierre Mignard - Jesus on the way to Calvary. «Imp. Lamoureux r. S. Jeande Beauvais», «Et presentem[ent] chez Jean, rue Jean de Beauvais N° 10», «AParis, chez la veuve Audran rue S. Jacques aux 2 Pilliers [sic] d’or». 28 x 37 cm.Ref. Wildenstein, Georges - Les Graveurs de Poussin au XVIIe siècle. Paris, 1957,p. 109, num. 66.Joined: Le Christ guérit le fils d’un officier du roi. [illegible addresse]. 26,5 x 37cm. At the right of Christ’s figure: «vade, / filius / tuus vivit : Jean Cap. / 4. V. 50».(3 pl.)Nice portrait engraved for Foppens’s famous«Bibliotheca Belgica»598CLOUWET, Petrus. After Abraham van DIEPENBEECK -Portrait of the Antwerp physician Michaël Boudewyns (1591-1681), president of the «Collegium medicum». [Antwerp], C. 1664.29 x 20 cm, sign. «Abraham a Diepenbeeck delineauit excudi iussit / PetrusClouwet sculpsit».500 / 700 €Portrait of Boudewyns made to commemorate his appointment as physician atSt-Elizabeth Hospital in 1664. He is depicted knee-length, turned slightly to theleft, facing the viewer, standing in a room with a bookcase (date 1664 written onthe top), pointing at an anatomical plate in a book lying open on a table. Coat ofarms in the upper corner; below, the caption «Michaël Boudewyns / Patriae suaeceleberrimae urbis Antverpiensis medic. et philosoph. / doctor pensionatius,anatomiae et chirurgiae praelector, / hospitalis S[anct]ae Elysabethaemedicus et coll. med. praeses.». This plate engraved by Clouwet (1629-1670)after a drawing by Van Diepenbeeck (1596-1675) was reprinted in Foppens’s«Bibliotheca Belgica» (Brussels, 1739, II, facing p. 890).Ref. British Museum Collection online (issue reproduced). - Wellcome Library1290i (original etching by A. van Diepenbeeck). - Biogr. nat. II:797/799.Prov. Public auction Van Herck Dec. 1992 (ms. label).599Emblematic figure of a nun bearing in hands a skull and a snake.[17th - 18th c.].14,5 x 10,5 cm.120 / 180 €Intriguing «memento mori» scene, with the figure standing in the austerelocation of a monastery, looking at a skull.600GALLE, Cornelis - Christ and the woman taken in adultery. [17th c.].6,6 x 9,4 cm, sign. «C. Galle».100 / 130 €Probably made for a missal by Cornelis Galle the Younger (1615-1678).Joined: Issue on old laid paper, watermarked.Amazing and iconic image of the future patron ofaviators and air travellers597 [Brussels]Bird’s-eye view of the church and cloister of the Minims atBrussels, with emblematic view of the transportation of OurLady of Loreto. [17th c.].28 x 19 cm (some marginal stains).250 / 350 €In 1621, Archduchess Isabella of Austria erected near the church of the MinimsFathers in Brussels, a chapel reproducing exactly the shape and dimensions ofthe Holy House of Loreto. According to tradition, the house in Nazareth wherethe Virgin Mary was born, grew up and received the announcement from theArchangel Gabriel, was miraculously transported in Loreto (Italy) at the end ofthe 13th century. In 1920, the Virgin of Loreto became the patron of aviators andair travellers! In Brussels, the chapel Notre-Dame de Lorette was built on thesite of a bawdy house bought by the Archduchess, to symbolize the possibilitythat the prostitutes could be redeemed. The plate shows, on top, the Holy Housewith the Virgin and the Child being tranported through the air by angels andlooking down on to the city, with the church and some buildings surrounded bya fortified wall, a sea with some ships in the background, and two pilgrims inthe foreground. Below, a caption: «Het broederschap van onse L: Vrouwe vanLoretten. / Opgherecht in de kercke van de PP: Minimen, tot Brussel».Ref. Henne, A. & Wauters, A. - Histoire de la ville de Bruxelles. IV:39.ARENBERG AUCTIONS • 19.10.2019 • 179
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