Hendrik Johannes Knip

With François Buffa & fils, Amsterdam (their label on back of frame)

Sold in modern wood and gilt frame. The drawing has been attached to wooden stretchers and then sandwiched behind glass, so was not seen out of the glass. There is some slightly spotting overall, which appears to have been re-touched in the sky. Overall, however, the impression is still very strong and the gouache is in good condition.
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Hendrik Johannes is known to have depicted the same view in three other gouaches, two in private collections and one sold, New York, Sotheby's, 25 January 2002, lot 147.  Each is painted from a slightly different angle to the present work, and they have differences in the staffage and the cluster of buildings near the bridge.¹ 

We are grateful to Michiel Jonker for confirming the attribution.

1. See F. Kuyvenhoven and R. Peeters, De Familie Knip: Drie generaties kunstenaars uit Noord-Brabant, exhib. cat., Zwolle 1988, nos. 48-9, pp. 111-112