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JAN TEN COMPE (1713-1761) AND JACOBUS BUYS (1724-1801)
View of the Haarlemmerpoort with the Haarlemmerplein, Amsterdam
signed and inscribed 'J. ten Compe ad viv./ opget. door JBuys.' (on a label attached to the mount)
black chalk, pen and grey ink and grey wash, watermark fleur-de-lys, pen and grey ink framing lines
8¾ x 14⅝ in. (22.1 x 37.2 cm.)

Provenance
Possibly Hendrix Busserus; Van der Schley et al., Amsterdam, 21 October 1782, album 32, lot 2194.
Johan Goll van Frankenstein I, Amsterdam (1722-1785) (L. 2987, with his collectors number 'N 1540'), and by descent to
Johan Goll van Frankenstein II, Amsterdam (1756-1821), and by descent to
Pieter Hendrik Goll van Frankenstein, Amsterdam (1787-1832); De Vries-Roos Amsterdam, 1833, album II, lot 22, (3.25 guilders, together with lot 21 to Haverkamp).
J.H.H. Leonhardt, Amsterdam (1833-1904), and by descent to
G.J.G. Leonhardt, Amsterdam (1901-1981) and Mrs G.E.A.M. Leonhardt-Pilz von Wernhof, Switzerland; Christie's, Amsterdam, 20 November 1989, lot 191, where acquired by
Dr J.A.M. Smit (1935-2006).
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Oumannenhuis, Historische Tentoonstelling Amsterdam 1876, 1876, no. 131.
Amsterdam, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam in de XVIlle eeuw, 1934, no. 49.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap, Amsterdam in tekening! Verzameling Leonhardt, 1962, no. 107.
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Lot Essay

The Haarlemmepoort, depicted here from the north side of the Haarlemmerplein, was designed by architect Hendrick de Keyser (1565-1621) in 1615 as part of the new fortifications surrounding the recently expanded margins of Amsterdam. Today it has been replaced with a neo-classical model commissioned in 1837. Interestingly, the Stadsarchief Amsterdam holds a further drawing of the Haarlemmepoort by ten Compe and Buys, this time seen from the South of the square (inv. 010097010748). Ten Compe depicted an almost identical view to that in the present drawing, now in the Amsterdam Museum (inv. SA 40893). In this painting the staffage is altered and the perspective appears to be a few meters further to the left.

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