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| Guercino Landscape with seated man and dog ca. 1615-25 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino Landscape with fishermen ca. 1615-30 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
In 1790 Willem Anne Lestevenon of Haarlem paid 10,000 guilders in Rome for eighteen albums of drawings and prints assembled by Queen Christina of Sweden before her death in Rome in 1689. Lestevenon was a member of Teylers Second Society in Haarlem, and that is where the material was destined. Rare and wonderful are the cases such as this where a grand collection that has passed out of its maker's hands is yet preserved with even substantial fragments intact. Prompt enough insight and cash are both often lacking. Yet once the material returns to the market, it is likely as not to be dispersed in small lots for higher profits. And that is why the European artistic tradition stands in debt to a shrewd bourgeois from Haarlem named Willem Anne Lestevenon (1750-1830).
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| Guercino Study of woman looking right ca. 1620-30 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino Head of young woman ca. 1625-40 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino Martyrdom of St Lawrence ca. 1628 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino St Gregory Thaumaturgus ca. 1628-30 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino Madonna and Child ca. 1630-40 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino Study of monk ca. 1630-40 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino St Cecilia ca. 1630-45 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino Head of prophet ca. 1630-50 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino Head of young woman looking right ca. 1630-50 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino Madonna & Child with St Andrew Corsini and St Matthew ca. 1633-34 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino Old man with arms spread ca. 1635-40 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Guercino Penitent Magdalene ca. 1645-60 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |