Lot 132: ABRAHAM CASEMBROT BRUGES CIRCA 1593 - 1658 MESSINA

TWO SMALL SAILING BOATS AND A BARGE AT ANCHOR, WITH A MAN IN A ROWING BOAT TO THE RIGHT

measurements note
169 by 231mm

bears numbering in brown ink on mount: 6443/6;
pen and brown ink and grey wash, over traces of black chalk

PROVENANCE

Pacetti (L.2057);
from whom acquired in 1844 by Dr. F. Waagen, for the Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museum, Berlin, inv. no. 12685 (L.1632; L.2482);
Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1405a);
from whom inherited by Carl Winter, Director, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, his mark, verso (CW, not in Lugt);
Lisa and Leonard Baskin, their mark, verso (a red pomegranate, not in Lugt)

LITERATURE

E. Bock and J. Rosenberg, Die Zeichnungen in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, die niederländischen Meister, 2 vols., Frankfurt 1931, p. 106, inv. no. 12625 (as Adriaen van der Cabel)

NOTE

This sheet is one of a series of twenty-one sketchbook pages by Casembrot, all with the same Pacetti/Berlin provenance, and formerly attributed to Adriaan van der Cabel. One such drawing was sold, New York, Sotheby's, 25 January 2006, lot 2, and a further two in London, Sotheby's, 27 June 1974, lots 194 and 201.