Attributed to Hendrick Avercamp Amsterdam 1585 - 1634 Kampen

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Description

Hendrick Avercamp
a milkmaid
inscribed lower left in faint black chalk Anno 1672, the date reinforced in dark brown ink and with a monogram in brown ink HCD
pen and brown ink and watercolor

Provenance

D. Baron van Leyden, sale Amsterdam, 13 May 1881, part of lot 27

Exhibited

Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Fine Arts, Old Master Drawings from a Private Collection, June 17 - September 7, 1986, as Hendrick Avercamp

Literature

G.K. Nagler, Die Monogrammisten und diejenigen bekannten und unbekannten Künstler aller Schulen, vol. 3, Munich 1919, p. 281, no. 783 (as unknown artist, possibly Munich school, c. 1670);
C. J. Welcker, Hendrick Avercamp 1585-1634, second edition with catalogue by D.J. Hensbroek-van der Poel, Doornspijk 1979, p. 296, cat. no. T410a

Catalogue Note

Though published by Welcker as Avercamp, Nagler's suggestion that this drawing may in fact be by a later, German artist should also be considered.