Two studies of a barefoot girl holding a basket

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Albertus Brondgeest (Amsterdam 1786-1849)
Two studies of a barefoot girl holding a basket
signed 'Brondgeest'
red chalk, grey wash, pencil framing lines, fragmentary watermark Strasburg lily
10 1/8 x 8 in. (25.6 x 20.1 cm.); and six other drawings, five by Albertus Brondgeest, one by his son Johannes
a. A peasant, seen from behind (pl. 8)
b. A standing peasant wearing clogs (pl. 8)
c. A young woman with a sheaf of corn under her arm (pl. 8)
d. A man leaning on a shovel, with subsidiary studies of his head and hands (pl. 8)
e. Portrait of a woman (pl. 13) and
f. Johannes Brondgeest, Study of a skull, after Dürer (pl. 7) (7)

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Lot Essay

The son of a wealthy family, who were somewhat taken aback by his ambition to become an artist, Brondgeest was a pupil of Pieter Gerardus van Os (1776-1839) and Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk (1782-1810). His independent means enabled him to develop a successful parallel career as a dealer and an artist in his native Amsterdam. He also assembled a large collection of his own, which included a large number of 17th Century Dutch works, from which he drew inspiration for his own pictures. He was particularly well-known for his landscapes.
Some of the drawings in the present lot bear a stamp 'D.P. Brondgeest' (see Lugt online, L. 4331).

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