About This Artwork

Hendric Avercamp
Netherlandish, 1585-c.1633

Two Old Men beside a Sled Bearing the Coats of Arms of Amsterdam and Urtecht, 1620/33

Watercolor and gouache, with pen and brown and blue ink, over graphite, on cream laid paper
179 x 297 mm
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1965.30

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Amsterdam, B. Houthakker Galleries, 1952, cat. 1.

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections," January 30-March 13, 1977, cat. 14, by Franklin Robinson; also traveled to the Denver Art Museum, April 1-May 15, 1977; and Fort Worth, Tex., the Kimbell Art Museum, June 1-July 15, 1977.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 74-75, cat. 28 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.

The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1-November 1, 1987.

The Art Institute of Chicago, May 10-July, 1989.

Publication History

Felix Becker, Fifty Drawings by Old Masters in Private Collections (Leipzig, 1922), no. 12.

Clara J. Welcker, Hendrik Avercamp en Barent Avercamp, Schilders tot Campen (Zwolle, 1933), p. 282, T587.

D. Hannema, Catalogue of the H.E. ten Cate Collection (Rotterdam, 1955), vol. I, no. 173, and vol. II, pl. 92.

Ownership History

D. Muilman, Amsterdam; sold, Kunstboeck, Amsterdam, March 29, 1773, lot 23, to Oets [according to Welcker 1933]. Ignatius Franciscus Ellinckuysen (died 1897), Rotterdam; sold, Frederick Muller and Company and C. M. van Gogh, Amsterdam, April 16-17, 1879, Ellinckhuysen sale, lot 6. A. G. de Visser, The Hague, 1881 [according to Amsterdam 1908]. Possibly Alfred Boreel, The Hague; sold, Frederik Muller and Company, Amsterdam, June 15-18, 1908, lot 16, to Shrey, Frankfurt-am-Main [according to Welcker 1933]. Coster, 1909 [according to Welcker 1933]. Sold by Artaria and Company, Vienna, to Curt Otto, Leipzig, 1909 [Lugt 1929; Leipzig 1929]; sold, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, November 7, 1929, Otto sale, lot 4, to Mr. Houthakker [according to Dr. F. Carlo Schmid of Boerner]. Hendrikus Egbertus ten Cate (died 1955), Rotterdam, by 1955 [Hannema 1955]; sold, C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, December 1-15, 1964, ten Cate sale, lot 2, to the Art Institute.