A sketchbook page: An extensive hilly landscape with trees near Nantua, eastern France

This drawing, and the one in the following lot, are drawn and inscribed by the same hand. In his article on a travel journal made by Vincent Laurensz. van der Vinne ('Dagelijckse aentekeninge'), Bert Sliggers suggested that the present drawing was made after a lost drawing by van der Vinne (Sliggers, op. cit., p. 164). Besides this drawing, and the double sided drawing in the following lot, there are three other drawings known by the same hand (Sliggers, op. cit., pp. 164-7). It has been suggested that the artist who made these drawing was most likely a member of the van der Vinne family. The inscription on the verso of this drawing gives a detailed description of Nantua and its surroundings.