The arrest and murder of Johan and Cornelius de Witt

ROMEYN DE HOOGHE

Amsterdam 1645-1708 Haarlem

Four drawing-watercolors
Black chalk, brush, ink, brown wash, heightened with white/light brown paper
Each 206 x 318 mm

Provenance
Beyers, Utrecht, 28 November 1968, lotno. 2 (two of four)
Christie’s, Amsterdam, 30 November 1987, lotno. 92 (two of four)
Phillips, Londen, October 1990 (two of four)
Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, 9 November 1999, lotnos. 81-84
Private collection, Europe

Related literature
F.W. Hollstein, Hollstein’s Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, vol. 9, p. 120.
Frederik Muller, De Nederlandsche geschiedenis in platen : beredeneerde beschrijving van Nederlandsche historieplaten, zinneprenten en historische kaarten, 4 volumes: F. Muller, Amsterdam 1863-1882, vol. I (jaren 100 tot 1702), p. 362, nr. 2401a-d.

These four drawings by the Dutch artist Romeyn de Hooghe where also brought out in print. The political murder on the De Witt brothers in 1672 was depicted in several prints by De Hooghe after that year.  These four were printed in a newspaper manner with a written explanation below .

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