Entrance of an ice house.

Drawing, pencil, black and white chalk, 28 x 40 cm, tinted laid paper (unobtrusive folds along margins, pinholes, sm. piece missing on lower right).

Under passe-partout.

Van Assche (1774-1841) is regarded as one of the finest Belgian landscape painters during the first half of the 19th century. Journeys in Switzerland and Italy contributed to develop his talent. The artist often composed his Romantic landscapes with a combination of delapidated buildings set within a forest or nature environment. His drawings are quite rare.