Description: Pen, point of brush in brown ink, brown wash, 452 x 578 mm. The large sheet is partly very worn, particularly around the central vertical fold. Upper and lower right corners and a patch on the lower left margin are clumsily restored. Dark stains on the left. At the upper right, a triangle in red ink, and numbered No 2 in pen and brown ink (Karlberg Collection).

This worn and damaged drawing has long been ignored, in spite of its obvious masterly draughtsmanship. In the 2005 exhibition it was tentatively given to Jacob de Heusch, on the basis of drawings like the mountain landscape in the Hermitage.  However, the rocky landscape with sparse trees, peopled by a traveller on horseback, a resting hunter and his dog, and a shepherd playing the flute surrounded by sheep, is reminiscent of Berchem’s drawing of the pastoral environment of Brederode.  The manner of rendering the terrain and the foliage is very similar, as are the elegant figures. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 25]

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