The Bleaching Fields near Haarlem

The Bleaching Fields near Haarlem

RP-T-1899-A-4303

draftsman (artist): Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (mentioned on object)

1659 - 1665

pen and black and brown ink, with watercolour, over black chalk; framing line in brown ink

height 108 mm x width 194 mm

purchase 1899-12

Public domain

…; collection Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-98), Amsterdam (L. 2034; 3002-4); his sale, Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 3 March 1800 sqq., Album H, no. 23 (‘Een Gezigt op een Bleekery, vol werkende Beeldjes en Aanschouwers, met de Pen en Sapjes, door G. van den Eekhout’), fl. 25:10, to ‘Buys’ [probably Jacobus Buys (1747-1801), Amsterdam];{Copy RKD.} …; collection Jacob Helmolt (1747-1808), Haarlem (L. 2986b); …; sale, Hendrik van Eyl Sluyter (1739-1814, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (P. van der Schley et al.), 26 September 1814, Album A, no. 35 (‘Een Bleekerij, alwaar vele aan’t werk zijn, en anderen er naar staan te zien. Fraai met dito [pen en sapverwen]’), fl. 92, to Samuel Woodburn (1786-1853), London;{Copy RKD.} his sale, London (J. Christie and W. Manson), 16 (20) June 1854 sqq., no. 930; …; sale, Prof. Dr Friedrich Heimsoeth (1814-77, Bonn), Frankfurt (F.A.C. Prestel), 5 May 1879, no. 51, DM 116, to William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643);{Copy RKD.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25- June 1895 sqq., no. 205, fl. 90, to the dealer H.J. Valk for the Vereniging Rembrandt;{Copy RKD; note RMA.} from whom, fl. 103.50, to the museum (L. 2228), 1899

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