LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Pen and black and gray ink and watercolor, over traces of pencil

Measurements:

8.03 in. (20.40 cm.) (height) by 13.58 in. (34.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, apparently in the hand of Jacobus Buys, in gray ink, verso: J. ten Compe ad viv. / opg(e? )t door J Buys

Exhibited:

Florence, La Strozzina, . I Disegni Scenografici della Raccolta Fatio, 1958, no. 111

Provenance:

Theodorus van Duysel, Amsterdam,. his sale, Amsterdam, Philippus van der Schley, 11 October 1784, Portfolio D, no. 305 (as Jan ten Compe, Jacobus Buys and Jacob van de Velde);. Edmond Fatio (1871-1959), Geneva,. his sale, Geneva, Rauch, 3 June 1959, lot 60 (as Jan ten Compe, '. Vue d'une ville Hollandaise' );. sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 2 November 2004, lot 128 (as Dutch School, 18th Century, but with a saleroom notice giving the correct attribution),. where acquired by the present owners