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Douci, Laurens Mauritsz.

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Inventory #285
Call NumberNA 3505, fol. 197
Date1669/01/18
CityAmsterdam
CountryNederland
TypeNotarial
Purposedeath inventory
Family NameDouci
Owner NameDouci, Laurens Mauritsz.
Life Dates1606 |d 1669
OccupationArtisan |a Armorer
ResidenceAmsterdam
IntroductionInventaris der schilderyen ...by wylen Laurens Mauritsz. Douci metter doot ontruymt...taxatie door Srs. Ferdinandus Bol en Gerrit Uylenburgh
CommentaryAccording to an article published by S.A.C. Dudok van Heel in Maandblad Amstelodamum on Cornelis Brise, Laurens Maurits Douci (1606-1669) was an armor maker (p.14). Dudok van Heel singled out the presence in the inventory of a banquet by Brise (R 7432 of Montias2) because Brise, according to Houbraken, was a specialist in the depiction of armor. On 9 June 1661, Barent Cornelisz., 51, Allart van Everdingen, 39, Willem Kalff, 39, and Jacob van Ruisdael, 32, made a deposition at the request of Sr. Laurens Mauritsen Doucy. They declared that they had gone to the residence of the requirant (Doucy) and there inspected a painting of a sea shore with a few rocks that the requirant had bought from Abraham de Cooge of Delft. Barent Cornelisz. declared that the ships, staffage, sky, and boats had mainly been painted not by Porcellis but by Hendrick van Anthonisz. of R 23267. Ruisdael said that the painting may have been begun by Porcellis but that it was inappropriate to attribute it to him. Everdingen and Kalff declared that Porcellis did not paint any part of the painting (Bredius in Oud Holland 6(1888), pp.21-2). Barent Cornelisz. was called Kleeneknecht. He was also a ship's carpenter and a shipper on inland waterways (for his death inventory of 1-3 February 1674, see Bredius, Künstler-inventare pp.349-352). There are six paintings attributed to Porcellis in the present Douci inventory. On 13 March 1666, the painter Jacob Colijns (son of David Colyn), 52, declared at the request of Laurens Maurissen Doucy that a certain painting in Doucy's possession representing a beach scene by the painter Porcellis was only a copy. He had seen the original in his father's house. The copy had been made by Set Cornelisz. Schanck from Dortheim (Bredius, Künstler-inventare, p. 1097). On 20 August 1667, the painter Johannes Collaert and his wife Petronella van der Cley (presumed to be the daughter of Paulus van der Cley of R 43863) declared themselves sureties for a sum of 373 f. that the painter Emanuel de Wit owed to Sr. Laurens Mauritsz. Doucy (for details see the NOTES to R 43863) (Oud Holland 4(1886), p.301). On 13 November 1670, several witnesses declared at the request of Nelletge (Petronella) van der Kley, wife of Johannes Collaert, painter, that 5 or 6 years ago, at the house of Laurens Maurits Doucy, who, when he was alive, lived on the Overthoom in the banne of Amsterveen, they had seen a painting of Emanuel de Wit representing the New Fish Market of the city of Amsterdam, within which was painted the widow of Joris de Wijs, notary. A framemaker declared that he had seen it two years ago and made an ebony frame for it. On the same day, Pieter de Hoogh, 40, living in the Conijnestraet, declared at the request of the widow of Johannes Collaert that he had been in the house of the Requirante (the widow of Joahannes Collaert) three years ago and there heard and seen that Laurens Doucy, the son of Laurens Mauritsen Doucy, had sold the painting by Emanuel de Wit representing the New Fish Market, to the husband of the Requirante, Johannes Collaert. Pieter de Hoogh added that about 2 years ago he had seen the painting along with Sr. Wijbrant van Portengen, clerk of the Desolate Boedelskamer, who was married to the daughter of the late Joris de Wijs, in the house of the Requirante (Jacobus Hellerus Not., cited in Oud Holland 7(1889), p.166). Note that there were six paintings by De Witte in the Douci inventory. A man named Maurits Douchy, who was said to be 28 in a deposition about Lucas de Clercq, may have been another son of Laurens Maurits Douci (NA 694B, Not. J. Warnaerts).
NotaryG. van Breugel
AppraiserFerdinand Bol and Gerrit Uylenburgh
Art Value2600 |d
# of Items124
Montias1 #202
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Lot Type Artist Title Subject Verbatim Entry
0001 GOOR, STEVEN JANSZ. VAN een groot lantschap van Goor f 60:--:--
0002 VLIEGER, SIMON DE een stuck met scheepiens van de Vlieger f 80:--:--
0003 [ANONYMOUS] een Susanna van een out Mr. f 30:--:--
0004 ROGHMAN, ROELAND een lantschap van Roghman f 30:--:--
0005 HEEM, JAN DAVIDSZ. DE een bancket van de Heem f 100:--:--
0006 BRAMER, LEONARD drie coninghen van Bramer f 30:--:--
0008 SAFTLEVEN, CORNELIS een cameel van Sachtleven f 45:--:--
0008 JACOB VAN LOON, UNIDENTIFIED] eenige spelluijden van van Loon f 40:--:--
0009 GOOR, STEVEN JANSZ. VAN een lantschap van van Goor f 36:--:--
0010 GOOR, STEVEN JANSZ. VAN een dito [lantschap] van van Goor f 30:--:-
0011 WITTE, EMANUEL DE een kerck van Emanuel de Wit f 150:--:--
0012 HALS, FRANS een luytslaeger van Frans Hals f 15:--:--
0013 EVERDINGEN, ALLART VAN een lantschap van Allert van Everdingen f 80:--:--
0014 [JAN COENEN, UNIDENTIFIED] een lantschap van Jan Coenen f 15:--:--
0015 KESSEL, JAN VAN (I) een lantschap van van Kessel f 18:--:--
0016 DUJARDIN, KAREL eenige beesten van Karel de Jardijn f 60:--:--
0017 HOLSTEIJN, CORNELIS een Bacchusfeest van Holsteyn f 120:--:--
0018 MOSTAERT, GILLIS een Hoff van Brabant van Mostert f 30:--:--
0019 EVERDINGEN, ALLART VAN een waterval van Everdingen f 60:--:--
0020 VLIEGER, SIMON DE een stil water of Schinckeschans door de Vlieger f 36:--:--
0021 CAMPHUYSEN, GOVERT DIRCKSZ. een lantschap met beesjes van Camphuysen f 10:--:--
0022 WOLFAERTS, JAN BAPTIST een lantschap met beesjes van Wolffraet f 30:--:--
0023 [ANONYMOUS] een stormpje f 6:--:--
0024 CAMPHUYSEN, RAFAEL GOVERTSZ. een lantschapje van Camphuysen f 7:--:--
0025 METSU, GABRIEL een slypertje van Metsu f 50:--:--
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