SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK (ANTWERP 1599-1641 LONDON) - photo 1
SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK (ANTWERP 1599-1641 LONDON) - photo 2
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SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK (ANTWERP 1599-1641 LONDON)

Lot 83
01.02.2024 12:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1132718
Lot 83 | SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK (ANTWERP 1599-1641 LONDON)
Estimate value
$ 800 000 – 1 200 000
SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK (ANTWERP 1599-1641 LONDON)

Portrait of Willem Hondius

with inscription ‘van Dyk.’ (on the mount, lower right)

black chalk, grey and brown wash, pen and brown ink, heightened with white

8 ½ x 6 ½ in. (21.5 x 16.5 cm)





Provenance

Possibly Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772), Paris; Paris, 9 November-5 December 1772, part of lot 169 (‘Le portrait de Van-Uden, le même qui a été grave par L. Vorstermann, & de la même grandeur, il est un-peu plus que de profil, & tient une estampe & une tête d’homme vue de face, ces deux portraits au crayon noir, & au bistre, sont du plus beau de Van-Dyck.’).

Peter Adolf Hall (1739-1793), Paris (L. 1285, previously identified as the mark of Huquier); Paris, 15-22 November 1779, lot 374 (‘Autre Portrait d’Artiste [the previous lot being a portrait of Lucas van Uden], de la même suite, avec rabat à dentelles, la main gauche sur son ventre & tenant sa draperie, à la pierre noire & à la plume, 8 sur 6 de lar.’; 56 livres to Pierre-François Basan).

Count Jakob Gustaf De la Gardie (1768-1842), Löberöd (according to an inscription by Johan Olof Granberg on the recto of the mount: ‘På begäran får jag harmed förklara, att jag ovanstående svartkritsporträtt,/ med bortseende av senare isatte tuschsträck, vara ett egenhändigt, ur greve Jakob De la Gardies samling på Löberöd arbete av Anthonis van Dyck,/ framställande gravören Willem Hondius./ Stockholm 17 Nov. 1928/ Olof Granberg/ Intendent.’; a similar inscription by him, also from 1928, on the verso).

Bengt Johan Låftman (1881-1976), Helsingborg (according to letters to him by Granberg, dated 1915).

Art market, Stockholm, 1970s or 1980s, where acquired by a private collector; by descent to the current owners.



Literature

J.A. Spicer, ‘Anthony van Dyck’s Iconography: An Overview of its Preparation’, in Susan J. Barnes and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds., Van Dyck 350, Washington, D.C., 1994, pp. 346, 358, under no. 29.

M.-A. Dupuy-Vachey, ‘Lugt 1285: from Gabriel Huquier to Peter Adolf Hall’, Master Drawings, LV, no. 4 (Winter 2017), no. I, 111, p. 529.

S. Alsteens, ‘Van Dyck and Willem Hondius’ (in preparation).
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