A Sketch of a Greek Street Vendor, at Half?Length


Inscribed in pen and ink at upper left: Portrait van een Greekschen Koopman
and further inscribed in pen and ink with a description of the colours of his
clothing and shoes along the right side
Pen and brown ink
251 by 200 mm.


Born in Antwerp, Matthieu Ignatius van Bree was already a very famous artist in
his own time. He first trained with Petrus van Regemorter and later with Francois
Vincent in Paris, where he initially starting out in a French style with themes
inspired by antiquity; he changed after the expulsion of the French in 1813 to
painting historical pictures based on Dutch and Flemish history. He was also a
counrt painter of the empress Jos?phine Bonaparte in Paris. He later returned to
Antwerp to become the director of the Antwerp Academy in 1827. Van Bree was
one of the founders of the historical school of painting in Belgium and played
an important role as a teacher in the development of 19th Century Belgian art.
His historical paintings were often of large dimensions and earned him a high
reputation in his lifetime. He also painted more small?scale and colourful oil
sketches and it is these works that are now most esteemed. He also made a few
sculptures.This drawing was probably a study for a figure in one of Van Bree?s
large scale paintings, as it indicates in detail the different colours of the man?s
Greek costume. This detailed description also tells us that it was surely drawn
after a actual model.


The sale of his estate took place in 1840 in Amsterdam and Van Bree had a
considerable collection of paintings of both contemporaries, like B.C. Koekkoek
and Van Regemorter (his teacher) and their predecessors of the 17th Century
Willem van de Velde the Elder.


Provenance:
Matthieu Ignatius van Bree, Antwerp, estate of the artist (L.1881; see F.L. Lugt,
Les Marques des Collections de Dessins et d?Estampes, Amsterdam 1921 and
1956).

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