Trompe l'oeil with peasant.

Drawing, pen, brown and black ink, grey wash, on velin paper, 40,5 x 50 cm (sm. defects).

Framed (not studied outside frame).

Anonymous "trompe l'oeil collage" containing six drawings on a single sheet of paper incl. a bucolic peasant scene, the preface of a book of sermons, a calendar page of a Book of Hours, an obituary of Pope Clement XIII (1758-1769) published in the "Utrechtse Courant" and a "kort kronykje beginnende met den jaare 1711". Simulating the characteristics of collage in trompe l'oeil became popular in the eighteenth century.