Description: Graphite, grey and brown wash, point of brush in grey, 298 x 437 mm. Ruled framing lines in black ink. Laid down. Signed at the lower left, in black chalk, JHLinge(lbach); the initials are monogrammed, the last part of the name illegible. Numbered at the lower right 2115, in pencil, and inscribed Sachtleven, in pen and brown ink, but crossed out in pencil. Numbered on the old mount, in pen and brown ink, 1914 (Sparre). Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638).

The staffage in the foreground, executed with the brush and dark grey body colour, was added on top of an area already finished in brown wash. Most likely, all the grey wash in the left part of the drawing was added at the same time, over the light brown wash, reinforcing the silhouettes. The brushwork is characteristic of Lingelbach, the landscape less so; one is reminded that Lingelbach painted figures for landscape paintings by others. The old attribution to Herman (?) Saftleven seems unjustified. The signature differs from other signatures by Lingelbach, like the ones on drawings in Haarlem, and may not be genuine.
[Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 247]

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