View of Willem III’s Encampment at Bodegraven

Inscriptions

inscribed on verso: upper left, in brown ink, int prince quartier de :7 / 29: (date expressed as a fraction, month over day) 1672 / by Bodegrave ; lower left, in graphite, L N; next to that, in graphite, Pieter Cooj […] e?; above that, in graphite, V. Klotz; centre right, in graphite, 583
stamped on verso: lower centre, with the mark of the museum (L. 2228)

Technical notes

watermark: none

Condition

Some brown spots, skinning along the edges of the sheet

Provenance

…; from F. Muller, Amsterdam, fl. 11:75:-, to the museum (L. 2888), 1900

ObjectNumber: RP-T-1900-A-4443

Entry

The present sheet and inv. no. RP-T-1889-A-1927 are made in a different technique than the other drawings of the encampments of the army of the Dutch States-General under the Stadholder Prince Willem III of Orange (1650-1702). Here, the drawing is primarily executed in graphite and watercolour; only the outlines of the large ship in the foreground are done in brown ink. The other sheet includes limited use of grey wash. This technique is in contrast to the drawings of Josua de Grave (1643-1712), Valentijn Klotz (c. 1646-1721) and Barend Klotz (?-?), all of whom mostly outlined their whole compositions in brown ink and refrained from using colour. The present sheet might thus be a copy after a drawing of one of the three artists.

The inscription on the verso of the present sheet and inv. no. RP-T-1889-A-1927, reading int prince quartier (‘in the princes’ quarter’) followed by the date, is similar to, both in terms of its text and the handwriting, to an inscription that appears on the recto of another drawing of the army’s encampment at Bodegraven (inv. no. RP-T-00-171), whose author is also uncertain.

Carolyn Mensing, 2020

Literature

F. Muller, De Nederlandsche geschiedenis in platen. Beredeneerde beschrijving van Nederlandsche historieplaten, zinneprenten en historische kaarten, 4 vols., Amsterdam 1863-82, I (1863), no. 2443; R.J.G.M. van Hasselt, ‘Drie tekenaars van topografische prenten in Brabant en elders. Valentijn Klotz, Josua de Grave en Constantijn Huygens Jr.’, Jaarboek Oudheidkundige Kring ‘De Ghulden Roos’ 25 (1965), pp. 145-92, no. 305 (as Valentijn Klotz)

Citation

C. Mensing, 2020, 'manner of Valentijn Klotz and , View of Willem III’s Encampment at Bodegraven, Bodegraven, 1672-08-29', in J. Turner (ed.), Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.54206

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