Figures on a tree-lined road along the bank of a canal
Drawing
18th century (made)
18th century (made)
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| Place of origin |
Avenue of trees on the bank of a canal, which is crossed by a bridge, on which a man is fishing. The date 1692 appears on the arch, but has no reference to the artist, whose name is on a large stone on the left of the foreground; Painted in distemper colours.
Object details
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| Title | Figures on a tree-lined road along the bank of a canal (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Black chalk, with opaque watercolour, and a few accents in pen and brown ink; framing line in brown ink. Illegibly signed on stone in lower left foreground, in black chalk, [<i>Karel(?)] la Fargue</i>; the bridge dated by the artist, in brown ink, <i>1692</i>;1 and inscribed at lower right, by a later hand, in brown ink (with the museum’s Dyce inv. no.), <i>489</i>. Inscribed on old ruled mount below drawing, in pencil: at lower right, in a nineteenth-century hand (with Dyce’s original inv. no.), <i>115</i>; and on verso, at centre (nearly illegible), <i>Fargue fl. 1692</i> (based on erroneous interpretation of the date of the bridge rather than biography of the artist). |
| Brief description | Fargue, Karel la; Avenue of trees on the bank of a canal, which is crossed by a bridge, on which a man is fishing; Painted in distemper colours; Dutch School; 18th century. |
| Physical description | Avenue of trees on the bank of a canal, which is crossed by a bridge, on which a man is fishing. The date 1692 appears on the arch, but has no reference to the artist, whose name is on a large stone on the left of the foreground; Painted in distemper colours. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Artist's name is on a large stone on the left of the foreground. |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce |
| Object history | Provenance: Dr Edward Peart (1756/8–1824), London and Butterwick, nr Gainsborough, Lincs (L. 891), his sale, London, Christie’s, 12ff. April 1822, lot 7: ‘One, La Fargue, a view in Holland, tinted’; Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798–1869), London, by whom bequeathed to the museum (L. Suppl. 153b), 1869. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2014), vol. I, cat.60, pp.104-7 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | DYCE.489 |
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| Record created | October 20, 2009 |
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