A winter landscape with farmers gathering wood, skating and pulling a sledge on a path near a farm

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Jacob Cats (Altona 1741-1799 Amsterdam)
A winter landscape with farmers gathering wood, skating and pulling a sledge on a path near a farm
signed and dated 'J Cats inv et fec 1795' (verso)
black chalk, pen and grey and brown ink, watercolour, heightened with white, pen and brown ink framing lines
269 x 358 mm.

Provenance

Anonymous sale (ao Jhr. Mr. J.A. Repelaer); Venduhuis der Notarissen, The Hague, 7 November 1967, lot 125, fig. XII.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 18 November 1985, lot 156.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 10 November 1997, lot 224.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

An almost identical composition with almost identical measurements by Cats was sold with Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 12 December 1955, lot 285 (probably the same drawing as was offered with Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 2 May 1984, lot 22).

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