A shepherd with his flock near a tree

Details

Attributed to Karel Dujardin (Amsterdam 1626-1678 Venice)
A shepherd with his flock near a tree
traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
18 x 13.7 cm.

Provenance

Albertina, Vienna (according to an inscription on the mount).
Edwin Czeczowicza, Vienna.

Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 46, pl. 63 (as Dujardin; catalogue by J. Giltaij).

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

In the 1976-77 exhibition catalogue, this drawing was compared to a drawing by Dujardin in the Dutuit collection in the Petit Palais, Paris (see P. Schatborn, Drawn to Warmth: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Artists in Italy, exhib. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 2001, p. 157, fig. F). However, more recently, Peter Schatborn pointed out that the present drawing can also be compared to a Wooded Hill with a Castle in the Albertina, Vienna (P. Schatborn, op. cit., p. 160, fig. I). In particular the white areas in combination with contrasting wash are similar in handling.

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