The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories

Douci, Laurens Mauritsz.		printer-friendly view
Inventory #	285
Call Number	NA 3505, fol. 197
Date	1669/01/18
City	Amsterdam
Country	Nederland
Type	Notarial
Purpose	death inventory
Family Name	Douci
Owner Name	Douci, Laurens Mauritsz.
Life Dates	1606 |d 1669
Occupation	Artisan |a Armorer
Residence	Amsterdam
Introduction	Inventaris der schilderyen ...by wylen Laurens Mauritsz. Douci metter doot ontruymt...taxatie door Srs. Ferdinandus Bol en Gerrit Uylenburgh
Commentary	According 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).
Notary	G. van Breugel
Appraiser	Ferdinand Bol and Gerrit Uylenburgh
Art Value	2600 |d
# of Items	124
Montias1 #	202