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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff

Adriaen Van Der Werff

The sculptor's studio

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December 4, 01:51 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Property from the Collection of Dr Hinrich Bischoff 


Adriaen van der Werff

Kralingen 1659–1722 Rotterdam

The sculptor's studio


signed lower right: V · WERFF

oil on copper

unframed: 26 x 19 cm.; 10¼ x 7½ in.

framed: 41.4 x 34.1 cm.; 16¼ x 13⅜ in.

Possibly Władysław Grzędzielski (1920–2007), Warsaw (according to a mount at the RKD);

Private collection, Germany;

With Galerie Noortman, Maastricht;

Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 1–3 June 1978, lot 564;

With Galerie Müllenmeister, Solingen, 1986;

Dr Hinrich Bischoff (1936–2005), by 1993;

Thence by inheritance.

Munich, Haus der Kunst and Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum / Fondation Corboud, Wettstreit der Künste. Malerei und Skulptur von Dürer bis Daumier, 1 February – 5 May and 25 May – 25 August 2002, no. 122;

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, on loan until March 2025.

C. Klein, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers. Gemälde vom XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, pp. 276–77, no. 109, reproduced in colour;

E. Mai, in Wettstreit der Künste. Malerei und Skulptur von Dürer bis Daumier, E. Mai and K. Wettengl (eds), exh. cat., Wolfratshausen 2002, pp. 332–33, no. 122, reproduced in colour.

An unsigned version of this composition is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.1


1 Inv. no. MI 1012; oil on panel, 23 x 16.5 cm; B. Gaehtgens, Adriaen van der Werff, 1659–1772, Munich 1987, pp. 217–218, no. 17, reproduced: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059534