The Amphitheater at Cleves with the Statue of the "Iron Man", 1746

  • Jan de Beyer, Dutch, 1705-1768

Pen and black ink and watercolor on buff laid paper

  • Sheet: 6 1/8 × 7 7/8 inches (15.6 × 20 cm)

Gift of Dr. Haans Schaeffer

45.6

Signed, in pen and brown ink, verso, lower left: J: de Beijer ad viv :delin:

Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, lower center: gezigt tot Cleef in den Diergaerde agter den ysere Man. | in de Fonteine van de Galderie - [additional inscription below cut off] Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left: 1530

Hanns Schaeffer, Schaeffer Galleries (New York, New York, USA)

1945-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Verbeek, Albert. Die Niederrheinansichten Jan de Beyers. Supplement 5 of Die Kunstdenkmäler des Rheinlands...Essen, 1957, no. 124. Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, pp. 70-73, no. 26 (ill.).

Jan de Beyer, The Amphitheater at Cleves with the Statue of the "Iron Man", 1746, pen and black ink and watercolor on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. Haans Schaeffer, 45.6.