Gheyn, Jacques de (II); Banditti and Landscape; The mouth of a river, on the left are two banditti plundering the body of a man they have murdered; Pen and bistre, on paper; Signed and dated Flemish School; 1609.

Banditti and Landscape; The mouth of a river, on the left are two banditti plundering the body of a man they have murdered, while a companion keeps watch from a rock near them in the foreground; Pen and bistre, on paper; Signed Ja de Gheyn and dated 1609.

Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce

provenance: Gabriel Huquier the elder (1695–1772), Paris, his sale, Paris, Joullain fils, 9 November 1772, lot 138 (bt. for 33 fr.); Cornelis Ploos van Amstel Jb Czn (1726–98), Amsterdam (L. 3002 and 3004), probably his sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley … Roos, 3ff. March 1800, Album PP, lot 66: ‘Een bergächtig gestoffeerd Landschap, fiks en meesterlyk met de pen geteekend, door J. de Gheyn’ (to ‘v.d. Schley’ for 3.10 fl.); Johannes Baptista Josephus Achtienhoven (1756–1801), Amsterdam, his sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley … Pruyssenaar, 6 September 1802, Album M, lot 3: ‘Een Berghagtig gestoffeert Landschap met de Pen en roet, door J. de Gheyn’ (with lots 2 and 4–5 to ‘Gruyter’ for 0.14 fl.); William Young Ottley (1771–1836), London, his sale, London, T. Philipe, 6 June 1814, lot 599 (bt. for £3. 7s. 0d.); Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), London (L. 2445); William Esdaile (L. 2617), London, his sale, London, Christie’s,
18–25 June 1840, one of two in lot 597: ‘J. de Gheyn. The reposo, pen and indian ink; from the Zoomer’s Collection; and a rocky landscape, pen’ (to ‘Tiffin’ for £0. 4s. 0d.); Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869.

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