Sheep in a wooded landscape with peasants in the background

Details

Jan van der Meer the Younger (Haarlem 1656-1705)
Sheep in a wooded landscape with peasants in the background
signed 'J v der meer/ de jonge'
black chalk, pen and brown and black ink, watercolour, brown ink framing lines
8 5/8 x 11 in. (22 x 28 cm.)

Provenance

W. Mayor (L. 2799), and with his inscription (?) 'W.M. 1858' (verso) (L. 2639).
Anonymous sale; Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, 16 June 1960, lot 335.
with William H. Schab Gallery, New York.
Emile E. Wolf, New York.
Jacobus A. Klaver, with his mark on the mount (not in Lugt); Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 10 May 1994, lot 86; where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

A brief chronological description of Original Drawings and Sketches by the Old Masters ... formed by the late Mr. William Mayor, London, 1875, no. 903.

Exhibited

Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from a Collection, 1979, no. 54 (catalogue by C.E. Gilbert).
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Tekeningen van Oude Meesters. De verzameling Jacobus A. Klaver, 1993, no. 93, ill. (catalogue by P. Schatborn and M. Schapelhouman).

Lot Essay

Jan van der Meer the Younger was born into a family of artists and, according to Van Gool, was a pupil of his father, Jan van der Meer, called 'Vermeer van Haarlem' (1628-1691). The son specialized in depictions of animals in pastoral landscapes. Although most of his drawings are executed in grey wash, he also executed a small number of drawings in a more refined technique combining black chalk, pen and ink and watercolour, as the present drawing.

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