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Travellers and animals on a hilly road, cut through the hillside, with buildings above and a lake below
Pen and brown ink with grey wash over graphite | 24.5 x 35.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906302

Jan Hackaert (1629-85)
Travellers and animals on a hilly road, cut through the hillside, with buildings above and a lake below
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A drawing of a landscape with a tree dominating the foreground, and a road curving to the left overlooked by buildings on higher ground. A similar compostion recurs both in a painting in the National Gallery of Scotland (912; Burke, pl. 28), and, in reverse, in an etching (Hollstein, III, p. 161, no.8) by Jan Both, which no doubt were the source for this drawing; signed with the artist's initials, lower right.
Provenance
Lot D196 in the Abraham van Broyel sale of October 1759, where attributed to Jan Hackaert; bought by Pieter Yver (fl.92 with D195); first recorded in a Royal Collection inventory of c.1810 (possibly Inv. A, p. 120: '8. By different Masters, J. Hackaert, d'Atlar de Huis'; or p. 115: 'twelve of Various, imitating the Stile of Claud & Gaspar')
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Medium and techniques
Pen and brown ink with grey wash over graphite
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24.5 x 35.4 cm (sheet of paper)
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