Landscape with Figures Chopping Wood on the Banks of a River

Landscape with Figures Chopping Wood on the Banks of a River

RP-T-1897-A-3396

Heuvelachtig landschap met houthakkers aan de oever van een rivier.

• signature: ‘van aken’
• annotation: ‘S.F. -Lr.M.N 53./ Jan van Aken f. omtrent 1652/ LL’
• mark: ‘L. 2643’

draftsman (artist): Jan van Aken, Amsterdam (possibly)

c. 1652

black chalk, with point of brush and grey and some black ink, and grey wash; framing lines in dark brown ink (upper and left border) and brown ink (lower and right border)

height 96 mm x width 151 mm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1897

Public domain

…; sale, Abraham Rademaker (1676-1735, Amsterdam and Haarlem), Amsterdam (C. van Essen), 24 October 1735 sqq., fl. 1, to Sybrand Feitama II;{According to Feitama s.a. [1746], fol. 1: ‘_6 kleine Landschapjes, gekocht op Ab. Rademakers verkooping A° 1735 a 1 gl_’.} collection Sybrand Feitama II (1694-1758), Amsterdam;{According to Feitama s.a. [1746], fol. 1.} his sale, Amsterdam (B. de Bosch et al.), 16 October 1758 sqq., Album M, no. 53 (‘Een duin en Watergezichtje by een Dorpje met Oostind. inkt en Zwart kryt, h. 3 ¾, br. 6 d. [95 x 152 mm]’), with one other drawing, fl. 17, to Johann Edler Goll von Franckenstein (1722-85), Amsterdam and Velzen;{Copy RKD.} …; collection William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643); his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 June 1895 sqq., no. 6, with two other drawings, fl. 5, to the dealer F. Muller for the Vereniging Rembrandt;{Note RMA.} from whom, to the museum (L. 2228), 1897

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