Cornelis Steffelaar (1797-1861)

A riverlandscape with a ferry

Details

Cornelis Steffelaar (1797-1861)
A riverlandscape with a ferry
black chalk, grey wash, black chalk framing lines
280 x 357 mm.; and a drawing of a landscape near Elbingerode in the Hartz (2)

Provenance

(1-2) Anon. sale, Brandt, Amsterdam, 1968

Exhibited

(2) Amsterdam, 1975/6, no. 120

Lot Essay

The artist was the master of A. J. Eymer, as attested by their similar styles. (2) Steffelaar travelled to Germany in 1836. This drawing, comparable to a landscape of the same area in the Printroom of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, was presumably done on that journey
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