LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black chalk, pen and brown ink, white, yellow and pink bodycolour, on light brown paper, pen and brown ink framing lines at top, bottom and right margins

Measurements:

6.85 in. (17.40 cm.) (height) by 9.88 in. (25.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

dated '1540' and with inscription 'Herry Bles.'

Exhibited:

London, The Arts Council Gallery, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C.R. Rudolf, 1962, no. 93. Austin, Texas, Archer M. Huntingdon Art Gallery, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings, 1981-82, no. 6. Norwich, Castle Museum, The Northern Eye, 1987, not numbered.

Literature:

J.O. Hand, in exhib. cat., The Age of Bruegel: Netherlandish Drawings in the Sixteenth Century, Washington, 1986, p. 112, note 1.

Provenance:

C.R. Rudolf (L. 2811b). With Alfred Brod, London, 1969. Professor Einar Perman; Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, 9 June 1975, lot 7. The British Rail Pension Fund; Sotheby's, New York, 8 January 1991, lot 31.