Lot 38: Lambert Harmensz. Doomer , Amsterdam 1624 - 1700 view of alkmaar, looking towards the zeglis Pen and brown ink and grey and brown wash; inscribed and dated, verso : t Alckmar Doomer f A o 1690 ; bears numberings, verso : Inv. 284 (in pencil) and 35

Pen and brown ink and grey and brown wash; inscribed and dated, verso : t Alckmar Doomer f A o 1690 ; bears numberings, verso : Inv. 284 (in pencil) and 35 (in red chalk)

measurements note 265 by 314 mm

Leiden, Stedelijk Museum 'De Lakenhal', Tentoonstelling van Teekeningen van Oud-Hollandse Meesters uit de Verzameling van Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot, 1916, III, cat. 40;
Amsterdam, Museum Fodor, Teekeningen van Oude Meesters behoorende tot de Verzameling van Mr. Chr. P. van Eeghen, 1935, cat. 37, fig. 16;
Groningen, Groninger Museum, Van Cuyp tot Rembrandt, de Verzameling Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, 2005-6, cat. 27, reproduced

O. Hirschmann, review of 1916 Leiden exhibition, Der Cicerone, 8, 1916-17, p. 207;
C. van Hasselt, Landschaptekeningen van Hollandse meesters uit de XVIIe eeuw, exh. cat., Brussels/Rotterdam/Paris/Berlin 1968-9, pp. 39-40, under cat. 35, n. 5;
W. Schulz, Lambert Doomer 1624-1700, Leben und Werke, diss. Berlin 1972, pp. 49, 359, cat. 221;
idem, Lambert Doomer, Sämtliche Zeichnungen, Berlin 1974, pp. 21, 74, cat. 149;
Rembrandt and his Century, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from the Collection of Frits Lugt, exh. cat., New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, and Paris, Institut Néerlandais 1977-8, pp. 49-50, under cat. 31, n. 5;
W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York 1979, vol. II, pp. 916-7, no. 426

G. Waal, Edam (L.2541);
bought from him in 1906 by Dr. Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (L.561), his sale, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 4 November 1931, lot 63 (440 Reichsmarks, to Mensing for Van Eeghen);
Christiaan P. van Eeghen, The Hague (bears his mark, verso, not in Lugt);
Private Collection, The Netherlands

This is one of the most atmospheric and attractive of all Doomer's Dutch views. Although he made numerous topographical drawings in France, Germany and even England, views of his native country are comparatively rare. An Amsterdammer by birth, the artist lived in Alkmaar from 1669 until around 1695, during which time he produced many replicas of his own earlier drawings. Of this composition, however, no earlier prototype is known. Like the beautiful drawing that he made four years earlier outside the Friese Poort of Alkmaar,υ1 this must be a drawing made directly from life. As in many of Doomer's late drawings, the line work is here very loose, but the artist's remarkable mastery of composition and lighting is rarely seen to better effect, and the combination of the two is unusually harmonious. 1. Paris, Lugt Collection; See exh. cat., Groningen 2005-6, op. cit., cat. 26