Description: Faint traces of black chalk or pencil, pen and brown ink, brown wash, 194 x 317 mm. Upper left corner missing, lower left corner repaired. Framing lines in brown ink, on the left and right sides outside the edge of the paper. Watermark: Letters (C4) and a cross. Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638). Numbered on the mount, in pen and brown ink, 1964 (Sparre).

Gelder called the drawing a possible pendant to a drawing of a market scene in the Rijksprentenkabinet.  The manner is very similar, with the figures drawn in an unusually summary way in both, and there are other market scenes of the same type in other collections.  In those, the forms are less simplified, and Gelder regards them as drawings of a higher quality, but neither he nor later commentators question the attribution of the drawings in Stockholm and Amsterdam.

The drawings form a series that was probably intended to be reproduced in print, like other series of this kind that Van de Velde published. However, only the Amsterdam drawing is traced for transfer, and no print is known. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 429]

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