Live auction - Lot 522
[Flemish school]
"L'Eté vûe en Italie".
[Mechelen], 1770
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Drawing, pen and brown ink, 29 x 37 cm, laid paper, titled, signed and dated in ink at lower margin "designé à la plume par Hij Nieuwenhuysen l'an 1770" (paper toned, some brown spots mostly in the margin).
Under wooden frame.
Interesting drawing, made to look like a mezzotint engraving. Henri Nieuwenhuysen (1756-1817) was an artist living and working in Mechelen.
Ref. Thieme-Becker XXV:471.