Lot 157: JOSUA DE GRAVE

JOSUA DE GRAVE AMSTERDAM 1643 - 1712 THE HAGUE ITALIANATE BUILDINGS BY A RIVER Pen and brown ink and grey wash; signed and dated, lower right: Josua de Grave fecit: 1675: 102 by 159 mm

P. Langerhuizen,
his sale, Amsterdam, F. Muller, 29 April 1919, part of lot 351;
A.W.M. Mensing,
his sale, Amsterdam, F. Muller, 27-29 April 1937, part of lot 241;
P. de Boer, Amsterdam,
sale, Amsterdam, Mak van Waay, 15 December 1969, lot 274

Between 1672 and 1676, De Grave travelled throughout the Southern Netherlands, accompanying the Stadholder-King William III of Orange on his campaigns against the French, and making many topographical drawings. The buildings represented seem, however, more Italianate, and it is more likely that the composition is a capriccio than a real view.