LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Gouache, with some pastel, within black borders, on paper laid down on canvas

Measurements:

17.32 in. (44.00 cm.) (height) by 25.00 in. (63.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed on the wall, centre left: CTroost and inscribed, on the gateposts: drinken / Bürg

Exhibited:

Munich, Schloss Rohoncz, 1930, no. 325 (as 'Der Trunkenbold');. Paris, Institut Néerlandais,. Choix de la Collection Bentinck : en souvenir de l'ambassadeur des Pays-Bas , 1970, no. 50;. Boston, St. Botolph Club, . A Selection of Dutch 18th Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Gordon Collection , 2003, no. 12

Literature:

L. Brieger,. Das Aquarell ,. circa 1920, p. 130, reproduced;. J. Knoef,. Cornelis Troost , Amsterdam 1947, pp. 39 and 44, reproduced;. J.W. Niemeijer, in E.R. Mandle, . Dutch Masterpieces from the Eighteenth Century: Paintings & Drawings 1700-1800, exhib. cat., The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Toledo Museum of Art and The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971-2, p. 15;. J.W. Niemeijer, . Cornelis Troost 1696-1750 , Assen 1973, pp. 377-8, no. 823 T, reproduced

Provenance:

Possibly anon. sale, Amsterdam, 29 October 1892, lot 302,. to Assenduynen (as a pastel);. sale, Amsterdam, 16-18 June 1908 (property of Jhr. A. Boreel,. et al .), lot 577, to Dirksen;. with J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam (bears Goudstikker seal, and label with inv. no. 2085, on reverse of stretcher);. A.C.W. Baron Bentinck van Schoonheeten;. thence by descent,. sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 9 November 1999, lot 181,. where acquired by the present owners