Lot 168: A hilly landscape with figures approaching a castle (recto); Two studies of a woman with a child (verso)

Attributed to Abraham Furnerius (Rotterdam 1628-1654) A hilly landscape with figures approaching a castle (recto); Two studies of a woman with a child (verso) with inscription 'C 308' red chalk, pen and brown ink, point of the brush and darker brown ink, watermark foolscap, brown ink framing lines 7 1/8 x 12 in. (18 x 30.5 cm.)

18 x 30.5 cm.

Unidentified collector's mark (encircled RN; not in Lugt).

The combination of thick, dark outlines fluidly drawn with the brush, set against a more delicately rendered background, is characteristic of Furnerius's draughtsmanship. A comparable juxtaposition can be seen in his River landscape with a bridge in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow (V. Sadkov, C. Dumas and T. Folmer-von Oven, Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch Drawings of the XVI-XVIII centuries and Belgian and Dutch drawings of the XIX-XX centuries, Amsterdam, 2010, no. 191). We are grateful to Peter Schatborn for having suggested the attribution to Furnerius.