Details
GOVERT FLINCK (CLÈVES 1615-1660 AMSTERDAM)
Hommes jouant aux cartes autour d'une table dans un intérieur
plume et encre brune, double trait d'encadrement à la plume et encre brune
11,1 x 14,2 cm (4 1/3 x 5 9/16 in.)
Provenance
Herman de Kat (1784-1865), Rotterdam (selon une inscription sur l’ancien montage) ;
Joannes de Clercq (1842-1867), Amsterdam ; par héritage à son frère,
Pieter de Clercq (1849-1931) ; par héritage à son fils,
Samuel de Clercq (1876-1962), La Haye ; par héritage aux propriétaires actuels.
Literature
O. Benesch, ‘Neuentdeckte Zeichnungen von Rembrandt’, Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, nouvelle série, VI, 1964, pp. 117-118, fig. 15 (comme Rembrandt).
O. Benesch, ‘Newly Discovered Drawings by Rembrandt’, in Collected Writings, I, Londres et New York, 1970, p. 254, fig. 223 (comme Rembrandt).
O. Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, Londres, 1973, II, no 418B, fig. 505 (comme Rembrandt).
M. Royalton-Kisch, The Drawings of Rembrandt. A Revision of Otto Benesch’s Catalogue Raisonné, publié en ligne sur rembrandtcatalogue.net, no 418B (consulté en février 2023).
Further Details
GOVERT FLINCK, MEN PLAYING CARDS AT A TABLE IN AN INN, PEN AND BROWN INK, DOUBLE PEN AND BROWN INK FRAMING LINES
The traditional attribution of this drawing to the Flemish master David Teniers can only be explained by its iconography, which is less common in Rembrandt’s circle. One artist who did produce several tavern scenes (and to whom this drawing was also attributed, as recorded in an inscription on the mount, as well as in Benesch, op. cit., 1964, p. 117, n. 9) is Philips Koninck (1619-1688), for instance a sheet at the print room of Leiden university (inv. PK-T-AW-642; see W. Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York, VI (1982), no. 1325, ill.). Koninck’s style, however, is less precise and pointed than the present sheet’s, which compares closely to that of Govert Flinck’s works from the 1630s, such as his drawing at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, inv. 2007.5 (Sumowski, op. cit., IV (1981), no. 948b, ill.). For other examples, see the recent discussion of the drawing by Martin Royalton-Kisch (op. cit.), whom we are grateful to for his assistance.
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