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拍品专文
Charles Dumas will include this drawing in his forthcoming publication on the drawings of the La Fargue family, and has kindly provided information on the provenance. He has further pointed out that this is the last of several versions of this popular view by P.C. la Fargue. The first painted view is dated 1754, now in the Collection of the municipality of Leidschendam. A second painting of this view is dated 1757, present whereabouts unknown, while another, undated, version is in a German private Collection. A drawing also dated 1757 was most recently with Naumann, New York, and etched in the same sense in 1761 by Jacques le Charpentier. An anonymous etching of this view with different figures was published in The Hague circa 1761.
The tow boats on the Vliet at the left were part of the extensive structure of transport on water through Holland, originating from the 17th Century. Though slow because of delays at sluices and other obstacles, it was the most comfortable means of transport for mankind and goods, and the old infrastructure was extended in the 18th Century. Every town had its own wayside station, and the boats in the present drawing would end their journey from The Hague at the Leidseveer on the Singel in Amsterdam, shown in the large drawing by Jacob Cats sold in these Rooms, 20 November 1989, lot 228.
The tow boats on the Vliet at the left were part of the extensive structure of transport on water through Holland, originating from the 17th Century. Though slow because of delays at sluices and other obstacles, it was the most comfortable means of transport for mankind and goods, and the old infrastructure was extended in the 18th Century. Every town had its own wayside station, and the boats in the present drawing would end their journey from The Hague at the Leidseveer on the Singel in Amsterdam, shown in the large drawing by Jacob Cats sold in these Rooms, 20 November 1989, lot 228.