David Vinckboons

Dr. Einar Perman (1893-1976), Stockholm,

by descent to the present owners,

sale, New York, Sotheby's, 31 January 2024, lot 104

Laren, Singer Museum, Oude Tekeningen uit de Nederlanden. Verzameling Prof. E. Perman, Stockholm, 1962, cat. 121 (as Adriaen van de Venne)

Though this drawing was formerly attributed to Adriaen van de Venne, comparison with that artist's very characteristic drawings shows a different hand at work.

Much more similar in style are several spirited and imaginative small-scale drawings by David Vinckboons, made for elements in the decorative surrounds to maps, notably the Novissima Ac Exactissima Totius Orbis Terrarum, one of the largest and most celebrated world maps of the 17^th Century, which was engraved by Hendrik Hondius, and published by Pieter Serwouters in 1634. The drawings by Vinckboons that can be related to this map project are in various collections, including two in that of Clement C. Moore.¹

^1.J.S. Turner, Rembrandt's World. Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection, exh. cat, New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 2012, p. 34 under cat. 12 (with list of all drawings for the same project and illustrations of the map)