GRABADOS ARENBERG 19.10.2019

Dessins et peintures anciens – Oude tekeningen & schilderijen
71 [French or Italian school]
Fountain design. Late 17th or 18th c.
Drawing, pen and black ink, 23,7 x 31,5 cm, laid paper, unsigned (heavily
spotted, some dampstaining in lower and upper sections, vert. crease at left edge).
Stuck under passe-partout, under orn. wooden frame (not studied outside frame).
300 / 400 €
Four putti, symmetrically grouped around a shell-shaped fountain with a lambshead.
On the upper edge we see seven figure studies of cloaked classical statues.
72 [French or Italian school]
The river god Tiber. [Rome, 1550-1700].
Drawing, 14,2 x 22,8 cm, pen and brown ink, traces of pencil within frameline in
brown ink, thin laid paper with unidentified watermark (considerable tears in all
edges, some with loss to image, large tear in upper right corner, some black stains
at upper left corner, edges frayed). Stuck by upper edges under passe-partout.
200 / 300 €
Official portrait of Martin Tirant, abbot of the abbey of Clairmarais between
1615 and 1621. On the left his coat of arms is depicted with the motto «De
Deus Mihi Scopius». The text in capitals at the upper right corner reads «D.
Martin Tirant/estoit le 44e abbé/de Clermaret et/le premier mytré/trespasa le 6/
doctobre/1621». A copy of this portrait is now preserved in the Musée de l’Hôtel
Sandelin at St Omer (inv. 0202 CM).
Ref. G. Blazy, «Catalogue des peintures, Saint-Omer, Musée de l’hôtel
Sandelin», 1981, nº 368, p. 113.
70 [French or Dutch school]
Tavern scene with pipe smokers. Late 17th c. or 18th c.
Drawing, pen and black ink, brush and grey gouache, 21,7 x 17,4 cm, laid paper
(min. foxing). Under passe-partout, under wooden gilt frame (not studied outside
frame).
250 / 300 €
Reclining bearded river god with cornucopia in his left hand and baton in his
right. Next to him is a wolf feeding the two infants Romulus and Remus, which
makes it possible to identify the main figure as the Tiber. Probably drawn after
the Tiber statue displayed on the Campus Martius, and now in the collection of
the Louvre. The statue was discovered in 1512 in Rome at the site of the Temple
of Isis and Serapis, near the present-day basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.
73 [French or Italian school]
Wedding feast. 17th or 18th c.
Drawing, charcoal, with white wash, 39,5 x 41,2 cm, cardb. paper, unsigned (some
severe damages, vertical creases, waterstains, brown spots, probably trimmed at
left and upper edges). Stuck under passe-partout.
150 / 200 €
Lively interior scene with drinkers and pipe-smokers accompanied by a woman
lighting one of the men’s pipes. In the pictorial tradition of Ardiaen Brouwer,
Adriaen van Ostade and Jan Steen.
Vividly executed sketch by a confident hand. The general composition was
probably inspired by Veronese’s «Wedding at Cana».
Prov. Pinacoteca Torino (Coll. stamp L. 2236).
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