LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pastel and colored chalks, on vellum

Measurements:

15.55 in. (39.50 cm.) (height) by 20.47 in. (52.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in red pastel, lower centre: Troost / fec and inscribed, upper centre: Beslikte Swaantje / voor de puijterveense Regtbank

Exhibited:

Munich, Schloss Rohoncz, 1930, no. 326;. Paris, Institut Néerlandais, . Choix de la Collection Bentinck : en souvenir de l'ambassadeur des Pays-Bas , 1970, no. 51;. Boston, St. Botolph Club, . A Selection of Dutch 18th Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Gordon Collection , 2003, no. 13

Literature:

J.W. Niemeijer, . Cornelis Troost 1696-1750 , Assen 1973, p. 241, no. 288 T, reproduced

Provenance:

Possibly Madame E. Warneck, Paris,. her sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 10 May 1905, lot 117;. sale, London, 22 February 1924, lot 22 ('An interior, with prisoners being tried, pastel 16 x 21 inches');. with J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by 1928;. A.C.W. Baron Bentinck van Schoonheeten;. with Kunsthandel Hellingman Jonker, Amsterdam,. from whom acquired by the present owners in 2000