Lot Essay
Drawings of similar scenes by Cornelis Dusart (1660-1704) are in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg (inv. nos. 21875-6, Gernsheim nos. 17252-3), Dusart's mezzotints Bartsch 33 and 36 again show a similar subject.
Details
Dutch School, 17th Century
A Nocturnal Celeberation in a Town, with a Crowd watching illuminations by a Canal
with inscriptions 'Rejoicing night at Brussels/Richard Van Orley/No.4' and '4' on the mount; pen and grey ink, brush and grew wash, heightened with white (oxidised)
194 x 168 mm.
A Nocturnal Celeberation in a Town, with a Crowd watching illuminations by a Canal
with inscriptions 'Rejoicing night at Brussels/Richard Van Orley/No.4' and '4' on the mount; pen and grey ink, brush and grew wash, heightened with white (oxidised)
194 x 168 mm.
Provenance
J. McGouan (L. 1496)