Lot Essay
Hitherto the monogrammist 'C N' has not been identified. The artist might have been working close to the famous late 18th Century artist Paulus Constantijn la Fargue (The Hague 1729-1782).
.jpg?w=1)
Elegant people strolling on a path, smoking pipe, playing kolf on a path, in a garden
Details
Dutch School, 1768
Elegant people strolling on a path, smoking pipe, playing kolf on a path, in a garden
signed and dated 'C:N: inv: & fecit 1768.'
black chalk, watercolour, pen and brown ink framing lines
304 x 207 mm., framed and glazed
unexamined out of frame
Elegant people strolling on a path, smoking pipe, playing kolf on a path, in a garden
signed and dated 'C:N: inv: & fecit 1768.'
black chalk, watercolour, pen and brown ink framing lines
304 x 207 mm., framed and glazed
unexamined out of frame
Special notice
Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.
Sale room notice
An attribution to Cornelis van Noorde ( Haarlem 1731-1795) has been suggested.