Lot 165: Zacharias Blyhooft (c.1635-c.1681)

Villagers rescuing travellers drowning in a frozen river numbered 'N o 3' ( verso ) black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash on paper washed light brown, pen and brown ink framing lines 4 x 73/4 in. (101 x 195 mm.) PROVENANCE Dr. Paul Graf Thun-Hohenstein, Vienna, 1938. LITERATURE C. von Prybram-Gladona, Unbekannte Zeichnungen alter Meister aus europ„ischem Privatbesitz, Munich, 1969, no. 131, illustrated (as Dutch School, 17th Century). NOTES Comparable to a drawing signed and dated 1680 by Blyhooft in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, W. Bernt, Die Niederlandischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1979, I, no. 82.