Live Auction 7249Old Master and 19th Century Drawings
Simon de Vlieger (Rotterdam 1600-1653 Weesp)
Lot 68THE PROPERTY OF A GERMAN COLLECTOR (lot 68)

Simon de Vlieger (Rotterdam 1600-1653 Weesp)

A mill on a wooded riverbank, with two labouring peasants

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GBP 3,600

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Simon de Vlieger (Rotterdam 1600-1653 Weesp)
A mill on a wooded riverbank, with two labouring peasants
signed (?) 'SV' and 'S D V'
black and white chalk on blue paper
10 7/8 x 8½ in. (278 x 216 mm.)

Walther Bernt, Munich, and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Mr C.P. van Eeghen has kindly pointed out that this drawing is from a large group of landscape studies by de Vlieger of which several are in the British Museum and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, all of them datable to the last years of his life when he had moved to Weesp. We are grateful for Mr van Eeghen's help in preparing this note.