Lot Essay
The artist was a pupil of Sara Troost and of her cousin Cornelis Ploos van Amstel
Details
Christina Chalon (1748-1808)
A Farmer's Wife hanging Laundry in a Stable
signed 'Chra:Chalon f:'(recto) and dated '1772.' (verso); pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour, black ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark Strasburg lily
165 x 157 mm.; and a drawing of the same subject in brown wash by the same hand, 218 x 257 mm. (2)
A Farmer's Wife hanging Laundry in a Stable
signed 'Chra:Chalon f:'(recto) and dated '1772.' (verso); pencil, pen and grey ink, watercolour, black ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark Strasburg lily
165 x 157 mm.; and a drawing of the same subject in brown wash by the same hand, 218 x 257 mm. (2)
Provenance
(1) Anon.sale, P. Brandt, Amsterdam, 1953
(2) Musée Guillaume II; J. de Vries, C.F. Roos & J.A. Brondgeest, The Hague, 1850
(2) Dr. J. den Hartogh, Zeist, 1967
(2) Musée Guillaume II; J. de Vries, C.F. Roos & J.A. Brondgeest, The Hague, 1850
(2) Dr. J. den Hartogh, Zeist, 1967
Exhibited
(2) Laren, 1963, no. 35
(2) Bonn/Saarbrücken/Bonn, 1968/9, no. 34
(2) Amsterdam, 1975, no. 28
(2) Bonn/Saarbrücken/Bonn, 1968/9, no. 34
(2) Amsterdam, 1975, no. 28