Lot Essay
Possibly based on a prototype of Aert van der Neer.
An Winter Scene with Figures on the Ice in a Town
Details
Karel la Fargue (1738-1793)
An Winter Scene with Figures on the Ice in a Town
black chalk, grey wash, black chalk framing lines, watermark J. Honig & Zoonen
179 x 263 mm.
An Winter Scene with Figures on the Ice in a Town
black chalk, grey wash, black chalk framing lines, watermark J. Honig & Zoonen
179 x 263 mm.
Provenance
An unidentified collector's mark 'B' (verso, not in Lugt).
Sale room notice
Published by C. Dumas and M.C. Plomp, 'Karel la Fargue (1738-1793) as a forger of seventeenth-century Dutch drawings', Oud Holland, 112, 1998, p. 50, no. 98, illustrated.
The present lot is a retouched counterproof of a copy after a picture attributed to A. van der Neer in the Konstmuseum in Götenborg. The original drawing by La Fargue is in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, inv. no. 4691.
This was sold at Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 3 April 1978, lot 131, illustrated (attr. to T. Heeremans).
The present lot is a retouched counterproof of a copy after a picture attributed to A. van der Neer in the Konstmuseum in Götenborg. The original drawing by La Fargue is in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, inv. no. 4691.
This was sold at Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 3 April 1978, lot 131, illustrated (attr. to T. Heeremans).