Seated Peasant: pencil on paper, signature at lower left, “B C Koek Koek in another hand

by Barend Cornelis Koekkoek

$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

1 vols. Image 7 x 7 inches, attractively matted and framed to 13-1/4 x 11-1/4 inches overall. Fine. Bénézit V, pp. 284-5. Item #18246 An attractive drawing of a reposeful man in rural dress, probably a study for one of the artist's paintings of country life. Notes Bénézit, “ He occupies an interesting place in the Dutch school of the 19th century”: the son of an Amsterdam Acedemician, and married to the

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