Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634)
A peasant dance and other studies c.1620
Brush drawing in black ink with touches of watercolour over traces of graphite | 12.3 x 15.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906500
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A drawing of three pairs of figures dancing, with a man playing a fiddle, watched by a child. On the left is a man kneading dough, with a detailed study in watercolour of his head, upper left.
Provenance
First recorded in a Royal Collection inventory of c.1810 (Inv. A, p. 118: '42. Drawings of some Master in the Stile of Breughel, representing the Diversions of the Dutch and Flemish on the Ice &c: with some Drawings of single figures for the Dresses only').
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Medium and techniques
Brush drawing in black ink with touches of watercolour over traces of graphite
Measurements
12.3 x 15.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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