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Cornelis Ploos van Amstel

Den Otter Fine Art

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (Weesp 1726-1798 Amsterdam) and Johannes Körnlein (Nuremberg circa 1720-1772 Amsterdam)

A portrait of a woman, formerly identified as Maria Tesselschade, after Hendrick Goltzius

signed and inscribed ‘Ploos van Amstel. J.C. fecit. 1770./ Hend. Goltzius del. 1612’ (by Ploos van Amstel himself) and ‘Alten No 18/ Portrait der Maria Tesselschade/ Dichterin, Malerin etc. Alten 18’ (probably by Ottokar Mascha) and ‘1561/ LR’ and ‘18’ (verso)

crayon manner etching and roulette, printed from two plates

26 x 19.9 cm

Van Someren 5882; Laurentius 18, third and final state (black plate), second and final state (red plate)

A very fine impression, in exceptionally good and untreated condition

Provenance:

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-1798), Amsterdam (L. 2725).

Dr. Ottokar Mascha (1852-after 1931), Vienna (L. 1904).

with Th. and F. Laurentius, Middelburg.

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