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A seated peasant mending his doublet c.1620
Graphite with some grey wash and watercolour | 12.5 x 14.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906490
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A drawing of a young man seated on grass in profile to the left, with his legs stretched out, and his hat and collar (?) beside him RL 6465-6513 amount to nearly one third of Avercamp's known drawings and represent the largest holding in one collection. They cover all categories of his drawings- studies of single figures, and groups, genre scenes and landscapes- and illustrate his considerable variety in finish and technique. In general the artist did not make preparatory drawings. They seem to have been made for their own sake, and some of the more finished coloured sheets were probably sold. The remainder served as a vocabulary of human behaviour as for the most part seen in the provincial town of Kampen.
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
Graphite with some grey wash and watercolour
Measurements
12.5 x 14.2 cm (sheet of paper)
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