A farmer leaning on a stable door.

Black chalk, 20,2 x 12,1 cm, laid paper, unsigned (few spots, sl. browned, ms. notes on verso).

Mounted at upper edge. Under passe-partout and gilt-orn. frame (studied outside frame). Interesting provenance.

Genre scene by the founder of the Antwerp Academy.
Prov. Illeg. stamp. - Eugène Rodrigues (b. 1853), Parisian lawyer (stamp, L.897). - Prince Vladimir Nikolaevitch Argutinskij-Dolgorukov (1874-1941), Saint Petersburg and Paris (ms. note, L.343c). - His sale, Amsterdam, De Vries, 27.3.1925, lot 369. - Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 2.11.1987, lot 43. - Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 14.11.2006, lot 71 (as David Teniers II).