Lot 249: PAULUS CONSTANTIJN LA FARGUE THE HAGUE 1729 - 1782

signed and dated upper right: P.C. la Fargúe del 1776

bears inscriptions in black chalk, verso: Paul Constantin La Fargue / Ecole Holl, and P.C. La Fargue / Katwijk ^a/zee / Open / Passe P.20 / Safe S (the S stamped in grey ink), J. J
pen and brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk, within brown ink framing lines on three sides
Inv.nr. N 186

208 by 357 mm.

The Hague, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Schilderijen en tekeningen uit de collectie van H. Piek, 1949, cat. no. 12 (wrongly described as Scheveningen);
Amsterdam/Dordrecht 1994-5, cat. no. 57

Anonymous, Vissen voor de kerk; Katwijk vroeger en nu, Katwijk 1969, reproduced p. 56 (as dated 1778);
J. Sillevis, Door Holland met de trekschuit; een tocht langs Hollandse steden en dorpen met de 18de eeuwse kunstenaarsfamilie La Fargue, Utrecht/Alphen aan den Rijn 1976, reproduced p. 83 (as dated 1775 and measuring 457 mm. wide);
E. Buijsen, The sketchbook of Jan van Goyen from the Bredius-Kronig Collection, The Hague 1993, p. 101, under cat. no. 84

Johan Ægidiusz. van der Marck (1707-1772), Leiden
His sale, Amsterdam, De Winter and Yver, 29 November 1773, Kunstboek O, nr. 1316 (8.15.- guilders, to Pothoven);
H. Piek, The Hague;
Sale, Amsterdam, Mak van Waay, 1 May 1973, lot 992

The most talented of five artist siblings, P.C. la Fargue made numerous topographical drawings in and around The Hague, Rotterdam, Leiden, Haarlem and Amsterdam. Although he made a number of drawings comparable to this of the beach at Scheveningen, this is the artist's only known view of Katwijk.