Lot 268: *Lambert Doomer (1624-1700) a family of peasants gathered outside their cave-dwellings near

*Lambert Doomer (1624-1700) a family of peasants gathered outside their cave-dwellings near amboise. Bears inscription verso: Buyte Amboise. Pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash, with touches of green and yellow wash. On ledger paper. 212 by 412mm. Provenance: P. Testas, Jr., his sale, Amsterdam, 29 March 1757, I-520; H. van Marseveen, his sale, Amsterdam, 28 October 1793, G-13; P. Langerhuizen Lzn., his sale, Amsterdam, 29 April 1919, lot 217; E. de Langen, his sale, Amsterdam, 19 December 1919, lot 888; J. Arnal, his sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 July 1924, lot 52; Curt Otto (L.611c), his sale, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 7 November 1929, lot 48, illus.; Carel Emil Duits (L.533a). Literature: H. Dattenberg, 'Lambert Doomer als Zeichner', Pantheon, vol.25, 1940, p.1

*Lambert Doomer (1624-1700)
a family of peasants gathered outside their cave-dwellings near amboise.
Bears inscription verso: Buyte Amboise.
Pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash, with touches of green and yellow wash. On ledger paper.
212 by 412mm.
Provenance: P. Testas, Jr., his sale, Amsterdam, 29 March 1757, I-520; H. van Marseveen, his sale, Amsterdam, 28 October 1793, G-13; P. Langerhuizen Lzn., his sale, Amsterdam, 29 April 1919, lot 217; E. de Langen, his sale, Amsterdam, 19 December 1919, lot 888; J. Arnal, his sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 July 1924, lot 52; Curt Otto (L.611c), his sale, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 7 November 1929, lot 48, illus.; Carel Emil Duits (L.533a). Literature: H. Dattenberg, 'Lambert Doomer als Zeichner', Pantheon, vol.25, 1940, p.13, illus.; H. van den Berg, 'Willem Schellinks en Lambert Doomer in Frankrijk', Oudheidkundig Jaerboek, vol.11, 1942, cat.6, fig.25; Wolfgang Schulz, Lambert Doomer, diss. Berlin 1972, p.311, cat.193; Wolfgang Schulz, Lambert Doomer, Berlin 1974, p.26; p.69, cat.130; Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol.2, New York 1979, p.1080, no.3, under cat.506x. This is an autograph replica of a lost original, made during Doomer's French journey in 1646. Doomer spent time in Nantes where his two brothers were living and then travelled with Willem Schellinks up the Loire to Le Havre. Schellinks' diary records that they were in Amboise on 29 July 1646. In the early 1670s Doomer apparently made replicas of his earlier travel drawings, most of them on ledger paper like the present view. Other views of cave and cliff dwellings along the Loire are listed by Sumowski, (loc.cit.). *Lambert Doomer (1624-1700)
a family of peasants gathered outside their cave-dwellings near amboise.
Bears inscription verso: Buyte Amboise.
Pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash, with touches of green and yellow wash. On ledger paper.
212 by 412mm.
Provenance: P. Testas, Jr., his sale, Amsterdam, 29 March 1757, I-520; H. van Marseveen, his sale, Amsterdam, 28 October 1793, G-13; P. Langerhuizen Lzn., his sale, Amsterdam, 29 April 1919, lot 217; E. de Langen, his sale, Amsterdam, 19 December 1919, lot 888; J. Arnal, his sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 July 1924, lot 52; Curt Otto (L.611c), his sale, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 7 November 1929, lot 48, illus.; Carel Emil Duits (L.533a). Literature: H. Dattenberg, 'Lambert Doomer als Zeichner', Pantheon, vol.25, 1940, p.13, illus.; H. van den Berg, 'Willem Schellinks en Lambert Doomer in Frankrijk', Oudheidkundig Jaerboek, vol.11, 1942, cat.6, fig.25; Wolfgang Schulz, Lambert Doomer, diss. Berlin 1972, p.311, cat.193; Wolfgang Schulz, Lambert Doomer, Berlin 1974, p.26; p.69, cat.130; Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol.2, New York 1979, p.1080, no.3, under cat.506x. This is an autograph replica of a lost original, made during Doomer's French journey in 1646. Doomer spent time in Nantes where his two brothers were living and then travelled with Willem Schellinks up the Loire to Le Havre. Schellinks' diary records that they were in Amboise on 29 July 1646. In the early 1670s Doomer apparently made replicas of his earlier travel drawings, most of them on ledger paper like the present view. Other views of cave and cliff dwellings along the Loire are listed by Sumowski, (loc.cit.).