Lot Essay
An earlier, almost identical version by Jacob Cats in grey and brown tones of 1784, is in the Fodor Collection in the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam.
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A mountainous landscape with maids milking a goat on the bank of a stream
Details
Jacob Cats (Altenau 1741-1799 Amsterdam)
A mountainous landscape with maids milking a goat on the bank of a stream
signed and indistinctly dated 'J.cats 17..' (lower left)
black chalk, watercolour
168 x 247 mm.
inscribed, numbered and dated 'N 377 Gedagten in Julij 1790 opge... 1790' (verso)
A mountainous landscape with maids milking a goat on the bank of a stream
signed and indistinctly dated 'J.cats 17..' (lower left)
black chalk, watercolour
168 x 247 mm.
inscribed, numbered and dated 'N 377 Gedagten in Julij 1790 opge... 1790' (verso)
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