A Peasant Couple
c. 1661-1662
Artists
Dimensions
9.9 x 13.1 cm (3 7/8 x 5 3/16 in.) mount: 24.9 x 16.6 cm (9 13/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Provenance
Jane Cleaver (Mrs. Robert Bell Livesey), by 1789, by descent; to .Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Peters Turton. Mr. and Mrs. Multon and Marianne Lambarde, Beechmont, Kent, by 1848, by descent; to A.C.M.B. Scott, by 1896, sale; [Christie's, London, 10 July 1973; lot 12], sold; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston (L. 3306, mount, verso, lower left); The Maida and George Abrams Collection, 1999.156.. NOTE: This drawing was preserved in an album that was made in the late seventeenth century, originally containing 164 drawings. The title page of the album read, "Verscheyde studies van Berchem, Potter, V. d. Velde, Ostade, Backhuysen, Jardyn, Schellings, Snyders, Bamboots, de Gyn, Koning &c. &c."
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