Description: Signed in the lower left corner, in graphite, with a monogram PQ. Numbered in the lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, 146 (struck out) and 1959 (Sparre). Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638).

Provenance: Crozat; C. G. Tessin (List 1739–42, p. 67; Cat. 1749, livre 15, no. 146); Kongl. Biblioteket (Cat. 1790, no. 1959); Kongl. Museum (Lugt 1638).

Exhibitions: Stockholm 1967, no. 228.

This drawing forms a pair with the next one [NMH 2159/1863]. They are the same size and technique, and both are surrounded by a one centimetre wide area defined by graphite lines. The first drawing depicts an old woman, the second an old man, both of them seated on a basket turned upside down, against a dune landscape with small groups of people in the background. According to the 1967 catalogue, the woman wears Scheveningen dress. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 300]

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