Lot 121: Godfried Maes (Antwerp 1649-1700)

Godfried Maes (Antwerp 1649-1700)
Eighteen illustrations for Ovid's Metamorphoses
black chalk, pen and brown and grey ink, brown and grey wash, brown ink framing lines, some with watermarks
each approximately 7 x 9½ in. (18 x 24 cm.)
18 (18)

(1) Anonymous sale; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 15-21 February 1980, part of lot 98 (to Dreesmann).
(2) Anonymous sale; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 18 November 1985, lot 196 (to Dreesmann).
(3) Anonymous sale; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 15 November 1983, lot 343 (to Dreesmann).
(4) Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 15 November 1983, lot 115 (to Dreesmann).
(5) R.J. de Rydt, Leyden, acquired by Dreesmann.
(6) Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 12 November 1996, lot 50 (to Dreesmann).

(7, 8 and 9) Anonymous sale; Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 15 January 1974, part of lot 1273 (to Dreesmann).
(10, 11 and 12) Anonymous sale; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 26 November 1984, lots 112-114 (to Dreesmann).

(13) Anonymous sale; Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 15 January 1974, part of lot 1273 (to Dreesmann).
(14, 15 and 16) Anonymous sale; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 15-21 February 1980, lot 97 (to Dreesmann).
(17) Anonymous sale; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, December 1986, lot 104 (to Dreesmann).
(18) Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 11 November 1997, lot 235 (to Dreesmann).

(1-18) Dr. Anton C.R. Dreesmann; Christie's, London, 11 April 2002, lots 668-670, where acquired by the present owner.