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JURRIAAN ANDRIESSEN ( 1742-1819)
A wooded path at Treslong, near Hillegom
signed 'J. Andriessen/ ad. viv. del.', inscribed and dated 'te Hillegom/ voorde Buytenplaats/ Treslong 1789 24/5' (verso)
black chalk and watercolour on blue paper
9⅞ x 7¼ in. (25.3 x 18.6 cm.)

Provenance
Possibly anonymous sale; Paillet Delaroche, Paris, 25 April 1803, lot 251.
with Theo Laurentius, Zaltbommel, 1978, no. 12, from whom acquired by
Dr Jaap Bolten, Oegstgeest.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 5 November 2002, lot 165.
Dr J.A.M. Smit (1935-2006).
Literature
R. Harmanni, Jurriaan Andriessen (1742-1819), behangschilder, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leiden, 2006, p. 50.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Jurriaan Andriessen spent much of his career producing decorative wall-coverings, the precursor to modern wallpaper, for interiors predominantly in the Amsterdam area. The ephemeral nature of these works means that few finished examples survive, though the Rijksmuseum holds a large number of the original designs. Such work evidently necessitated travel, and in 1789 he visited the area near Hillegom, a municipality to the south of Haarlem, three times. Treslong, a country estate built circa 1560 by the Bloys van Treslong family, was owned at this date by the Van den Ende family, one of whom was a pupil of Andriessen's. There are two other drawings of the estate produced by Andriessen on the same day as the present one, both held in the Noord-Hollands Archief, one depicting a man milking a cow with the coast in the background, and the other of two small figures in a wooded landscape (inv. NL-HlmNHA_53003530_K and NL-HlmNHA_53003531_K). The estate is now owned by the municipality of Hillegom, though the house no longer survives.

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