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DOI Artikel:Kozak, Anna; De Herdt, Jan [Ill.]: Jan de Herdt, a forgotten 17th century Flemish painter
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29. Artist unknown (17th century), St Annę, drawing, Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
30. Artist unknown (17th century), St Annę, drawing, Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
the otłier band, tłu: painterly ąuality of the two sketches, and the energetic, somewłiat rough
strokes, evoke associations with C. de Crayer’s drawings, for instance, the one of the Virgin
and Child Crowning a Female Saint, in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh63 64 65 (Fig. 24).
The similarities between this work and Herdt’s drawings in question rangę from the most ge-
nerał ones in composition through similar execution to details including the very similar putti
depicted above the scenes. Herdt’s drawings may bear relation to the composition Joachim,
St. Anna u. Maria door den ouden van Herck6i, mentioned by Wurzbach, that was sold at J. Sie-
brecht"s auction in Amsterdam in 1754. The watermarks in these drawings are different from
those occuring in the works we have so far discussed. In one of the drawings (StAnne and Saints),
there is a barely legible letter (?) sign; in the other (St Annę), a shield surmounted by the letters
GG (Fig. 23), which I have not been able to locate in watermark lexicons. Yet because the method
of execution and stylistic qualities of these drawings are similar to those we find in the compo-
sitions analysed before, we may likewise conclude that they come from the 1660s. It is interesting
that there are two other drawings of St Annees (Figs. 29 and 30) in the National Museum in
Warsaw that show stylistic affinities to Herdt’s works on the same subject. On the account of
this, Maria Mrozińska has hypothetically attributed them to his school. Even if Herdt did not
63. Cf. H. Vlieghe, Caspar de Crayer, sa vie et ses oeutres, Brussels, 1972, No. 222, Fig. 216.
64. A. Wurzbach, Niederldndisches Kiinstler-Lexicon, I, Leipzig, 1906, p. 668.
65. Pen in a brownisli tonę, washed in the same shade on pencil traces, 267 x 168 mm, inv. no. 146564/41 MN (Fig. 29); pen in
brownish tones, -washed in the same shades, on pencil contours, lights in white, on blue-grounded paper, 153 X 163 mm,.
inv. no. 146564/167 MN (Fig. 30); M. Mrozińska, documentation of research, National Museum in Warsaw.
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30. Artist unknown (17th century), St Annę, drawing, Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
the otłier band, tłu: painterly ąuality of the two sketches, and the energetic, somewłiat rough
strokes, evoke associations with C. de Crayer’s drawings, for instance, the one of the Virgin
and Child Crowning a Female Saint, in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh63 64 65 (Fig. 24).
The similarities between this work and Herdt’s drawings in question rangę from the most ge-
nerał ones in composition through similar execution to details including the very similar putti
depicted above the scenes. Herdt’s drawings may bear relation to the composition Joachim,
St. Anna u. Maria door den ouden van Herck6i, mentioned by Wurzbach, that was sold at J. Sie-
brecht"s auction in Amsterdam in 1754. The watermarks in these drawings are different from
those occuring in the works we have so far discussed. In one of the drawings (StAnne and Saints),
there is a barely legible letter (?) sign; in the other (St Annę), a shield surmounted by the letters
GG (Fig. 23), which I have not been able to locate in watermark lexicons. Yet because the method
of execution and stylistic qualities of these drawings are similar to those we find in the compo-
sitions analysed before, we may likewise conclude that they come from the 1660s. It is interesting
that there are two other drawings of St Annees (Figs. 29 and 30) in the National Museum in
Warsaw that show stylistic affinities to Herdt’s works on the same subject. On the account of
this, Maria Mrozińska has hypothetically attributed them to his school. Even if Herdt did not
63. Cf. H. Vlieghe, Caspar de Crayer, sa vie et ses oeutres, Brussels, 1972, No. 222, Fig. 216.
64. A. Wurzbach, Niederldndisches Kiinstler-Lexicon, I, Leipzig, 1906, p. 668.
65. Pen in a brownisli tonę, washed in the same shade on pencil traces, 267 x 168 mm, inv. no. 146564/41 MN (Fig. 29); pen in
brownish tones, -washed in the same shades, on pencil contours, lights in white, on blue-grounded paper, 153 X 163 mm,.
inv. no. 146564/167 MN (Fig. 30); M. Mrozińska, documentation of research, National Museum in Warsaw.
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