The Unicorno Collection: Fifty-five Years of Collecting Drawings

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Lot 277
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Jacob van Strij Dordrecht 1756 - 1815

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Description

  • Jacob van Strij
  • study of the head of a sheep

  • signed lower left: J:Van Stry

  • watercolour over black chalk, within black ink framing lines
    Inv.nr. N 58

Exhibited

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Toledo Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dutch Masterpieces from the Eighteenth Century: Paintings and Drawings; 1700-1800, 1971-2, cat. no. 84
Dordrecht 1994-5, addenda, no. 18

Catalogue Note

Van Strij's animal studies such as are often amongst his most spontaneous and freely executed drawings.