View of a Country House with Sowers in the Field, Hendrick Avercamp, c. 1610 - c. 1615

Identification

Title(s)

View of a Country House with Sowers in the Field

Object type

drawing

Object number

RP-T-1879-A-21

Description

Een voorname hofstede; op de voorgrond zaaiende landlieden en enkele reizigers.

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Hendrick Avercamp

Dating

c. 1610 - c. 1615

Material and Technique

Physical features

pen and brown ink, with watercolour, over traces of graphite or black chalk; framing line in brown ink

Material

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 131 mm × width 191 mm

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchase

Acquisition

purchase 1879

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; sale, Dionis Muilman (1702-72, Amsterdam), Amsterdam (J. de Bosch Jzn et al.), 29 March 1773 sqq., Album D, no. 251 (‘Een Landschap met een Heerenhuis, waar voor men bezig is te Zaaijen […]. Hoog 5 ½, breed 7 ½ duim [14 x 19.1 cm]’), with no. 250, fl. 70, to ‘Fouquet’;{Copy RKD; possibly the dealer Pieter Fouquet II (1729-1800), Amsterdam.} …; sale, Frederik Carel Theodoor, Baron van Isendoorn à Blois, Heer van Feluy and De Cannenburch (1784-1865, Kasteel De Cannenburch, Vaassen), Amsterdam (C.F. Roos et al.), 18 December 1879, no. 4 (‘H. van Avercamp. Paysage avec un château et figures. Au bistre’), fl. 29, to the museum (L. 2166

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) bijgenaamd "De stomme van Campen" en Barent Avercamp, 1612-1679, "schilders tot Campen", Clara J. Welcker, D.J. Hensbroek-van der Poel
Hendrick Avercamp : de meester van het ijsgezicht, Pieter Roelofs, Jonathan Bikker, Bianca M. du Mortier, Marijn Schapelhouman, Rijksmuseum, National Gallery of Art, p. 93, afb. 116
Hendrick Avercamp : master of the ice scene, Pieter Roelofs, Jonathan Bikker, Bianca M. du Mortier, Marijn Schapelhouman, p. 93, afb. 116
Figure and ground : Rembrandt to Mondriaan : landscape and people in Netherlands art 1520-1920, Peter Murray, p.26, 27 (afb.)
Tekeningen van Noord- en Zuidnederlandse kunstenaars geboren voor 1600, Marijn Schapelhouman, Carel Joseph Fodor, p. 13

Persistent URL

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