Head of a Man in a Cap, Drawing or Writing, Hendrick Avercamp (attributed to), after Gerard van der Horst, 1592 - 1629

…; sale, Willem Frederik Piek (1838-1916, Oudshoorn), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 1 June 1897 sqq., no. 2 (‘Le portrait du maître. Avercamp s'est représenté en âge déjà avancé, vu des trois-quarts, assis et dessinant, la tête couverte d'un bonnet pointu. Au revers du dessin, on lit: Hendricus Avercamp sijnde de stom van Kampen. Plume et lavis. - Hauteur to, largeur 12 cent’), fl. 18, to ‘Valk for G[erritsen]’;{Copy RKD.} sale, Antonius Wilhelmus Mari Mensing et al. [section Hermanus Philippus Gerritsen (1850-1917, The Hague)], 29 November (1 December) 1939 sqq., no. 98, with over 2,100 other objects, bought in at fl. 3,000;{Copy RKD.} purchased from the auction house F. Muller, fl. 3,725, en bloc, to the dealer P. Brandt, Amsterdam, for the museum (L. 2228), 1940, with support from the F.G. Wallerfonds

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