Peasants driving a wagon, another nursing a child by the road

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Jan Baptist de Wael (1632-1669)
Peasants driving a wagon, another nursing a child by the road
pen and black ink, watercolour heightened with white, small losses
177 x 255 mm.; a drawing of four peasants dancing by a follower of Vinckboons, and a drawing of two topers and a fiddler by Abraham Dipraem (3)

Provenance

(1) J. van Haecken (L. 2516); and T. Hudson (L. 2432).
(2) Dr. Benno Geiger, 1936.

Literature

C. von Prybram-Gladona, Unbekannte Zeichnungen alter Meister aus europäischem Privatbesitz, Munich, 1969, (1) no. 125, (2) no. 100 (as by Vinckboons), and (3) no. 129.

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Lot Essay

Similar in style, technique and subject to a sheet in the Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, J. J. Delen, Cabinet des Estampes de la Ville d'Anvers. Catalogue des Dessins anciens. Ecoles Flamande et Hollandaise, Brussels, 1938, no. 387.

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