Author: AUCTION CATALOGUE: WILLIAM II
Title: Catalogue des tableaux anciens et modernes, de divers écoles, dessins et statues, formant la Galerie de feu sa Majesté Guillaume II, roi des Pays-Bas (etc.), le 12 août 1850 et jours suivants (...) au palais de sa majesté, à La Haye, par J.de Vries (etc.). BOUND WITH: Souvenir de la Galerie de feu sa Majesté Guillaume II, (..) avec annotation authentique des prix et des acquéreurs.
Description: Amsterdam, W.Willems, 1850. 8vo. 2 vol.in 1. [v], 174-32 pp. Halfcloth (orig.wrappers of the 'Souvenir' preserved. (titlepage damaged and repaired, slightly foxed and stained; duty stamps) - prices and names of (agents of) buyers also noted in a neat contemporary hand in the main catalogue. The annotations are later supplemented by information in pencil. Most names of buyers are in fact representatives, i.a. P.Engelberts for the Städel Kunstinstitut Frankfurt; Bruni for the Russian tsar, Mawson for the Marquess of Hertford, Brondgeest for the Royal Musea in Brussels, etc. ¶ Most names of buyers are in fact representatives, i.a. P.Engelberts for the Städel Kunstinstitut Frankfurt; Bruni for the Russian tsar, Mawson for the Marquess of Hertford, Brondgeest for the Royal Musea in Brussels, etc. The Dutch government and institutions watched passively on: " While many connoisseurs came from England and France, while from St Petersburg the Russian emperor endeavored to buy paintings, the Dutch government, with its seat in the very city where the auction took place, remained immobile, displaying the impassive calm of a Buddhist admiring his navel." (Victor de Stuers, cited in: E.Hinterding & F.Horsch, "A Small but Choice Collection": The Art Gallery of King Willem II of the Netherlands, in Simiolus 1989, p.6) ¶ The auction fetched according to the Souvenir with auction results sum of 1.221.873.- Guilders, but this figure was distorted because the reserve sums of unsold works were added. In reality only a part of the paintings were sold for the total sum of 771.000 Guilders. ¶ Provenance: pencil annotation on half-title: Kast L. de Stuers.

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