Landscape with a bagpipe player.

Drawing, pen and brown ink, framing lines in brown ink, 15,7 x 21,8 cm (borderlines), 20,5 x 27 cm (sheet), vellum, signed with brown ink in lower left margin "Invent. A. Creuses. Rom. F." (ink sl. faded, some sm. stains mostly at margins, sm. repaired hole at lower right edge and near the goat to the right).

Nice animated drawing, picturing a goat shepherd playing bagpipes in a river landscape with mills and farm houses. Anthonie Crussens (ca. 1635-1665) was active in Brussels and specialised in village and landscape scenes in the style of Bruegel. His two sons, Guilielmus and Gaspar, continued his father's workshop, working in a very similar manner. Other drawings by Anthonie Crussens' hand, almost all on vellum, are now in the Collections of the Bruges Printroom, the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin and the Brussels Royal Library.
Ref. C. Dumas, "Anthonie Crussens, een Vlaamse amateurtekenaar uit het midden van de 17de eeuw", Delineavit et Sculpsit 22 (2000), pp. 1-46. - D'Haene, "European Old Master Drawings from the Bruges Print Room", no. 19; note 4. - C. Dumas & K. Van Pottelbergh, "Opnieuw Anthonie Crussens: biografische gegevens en nieuwe aanvullingen", Delineavit et Sculpsit 46 (2020), pp. 2-25.