The Unicorno Collection: Fifty-five Years of Collecting Drawings

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Lot 242
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Cornelis Pronk Amsterdam 1691 - 1759

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Description

  • Cornelis Pronk
  • the peat dredgers, after jan luyken
  • signed and inscribed with the age of the artist, in brown ink, lower right: cornelis pronk oud 11 jaar
  • pen and brown ink, within framing lines and broad margins
    Inv.nr. N 69

Literature

Amsterdam/Dordrecht 1994-5, p. 13, illustrated p. 12, fig. 2;
Pronk met Pen en Penseel. Cornelis Pronk (1691-1751) tekent Noord-Holland, exhibition catalogue, Haarlem, Vleeshal (Frans Halsmuseum), 1997, p. 44, reproduced fig. 18

Catalogue Note

This drawing by the youthful Pronk is a copy after the print in Jan and Caspar Luyken, Het menselyke bedryf, Amsterdam 1694, nr. 74: 'De Veender.'