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Harbor with a Fish Market

Harbor with a Fish Market

Object type Drawing
Genre Village, Town and Cityscape
Date 1593-1594
Dimensions 20.4 x 27.9 cm
Support Paper
Other authorities Bailey/Walker cat. #GERM.PC.1
Location/Most Recent Sale Germany, Private Collection
Tags Market, Fish, Crowd, Merchants, Ship
Winner, 1961, p. 201, fig. 11
De Coo 1970, p. 126, fig. 123
Winner 1972, p. 136
Winner in Berlin 1975, pp. 97-98
Munich, 2013, p. 39, p. 252, cat. #44
Berlin 1975, cat. #115
ca. 1705 to ca. 1731 Delft Acquired between 1705 and 1731 by Valerius Röver
ca. 1761 Amsterdam Johann Goll van Franckenstein
19th century to 20th century Amsterdam Reinier Willem Petrus De Vries
May 8 1900 Amsterdam His sale, Lot #31
Saxony Prince Johann Georg von Sachsen, inv. #I,445 (Lugt 1466)
Nov 7 1951 Stuttgart Sale, Lot #792
Germany Private Collection
Paige Walker
October 21, 2013

According to Louisa Wood Ruby, "the man with the tall hat facing left in the foreground of this drawing is a replica of the figure in the Harbor Scene (Paris). All of the men have their cloaks wrapped closely around them as if against the damp, beggars stare vacantly out at the viewer, and various women and children are scattered throughout the composition: these are the earliest renditions of what would become stock figural types for Jan."

E.A. Honig
April 3, 2014

Drawing is traced for transfer. It was made into an etching by A Sadelar in 1604; Hollstein 216.