Hendrick Verschuring

Unframed. The sheet somewhat foxed. A vertical crease down the centre and two very small slight tears at the upper left corner. A hole at the centre of the right edge, repaired with a patch on the verso. The sheet appears to previously have been laid down and on the verso are the remains of the previous backing sheet. The ink still strong.
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This is a fine example of the equestrian drawings for which Verschuring is known.  He concentrated on such subjects after returning from a period in Italy, where he lived between 1646 and 1654.  Here we see the country's influence on the artist, with the trading of horses taking place before the monuments of ancient Rome.  A drawing showing the same event, although seen from a different viewpoint, was sold, London, Christie's, 7 July 2007, lot 5.  Verschuring also depicted the Campo Vaccino in a drawing in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle.¹

1.  See C. White and C. Crawley, The Dutch and Flemish Drawings of the Fifteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, Cambridge 1994, p. 351, cat. no. 488