After the battle.

Drawing, pen and brown ink, grey and white wash, 12,5 x 8,2 cm, laid paper, unsigned (laid down on 19th-c. paper with gilt framing lines, sm. brown stains in sky section).

Under passe-partout.

A young man is looting fallen soldiers in the aftermath of a battle. Dirk Langendyck (1748-1805) was a Dutch painter from Rotterdam who had specialised in battle scenes and military themes. While many of his drawings and paintings are dynamic and vibrant cavalry battles, this sheet is a good example of his smaller and more anecdotal renditions.
Prov. Albert van Loock (coll. stamp on verso, Lugt 1752).