River Landscape with a Woman Carrying a Basket on her Head, Fishermen and Other Figures near the Walls of a Town

Hendrick Avercamp

before c. 1620

watercolour, point of brush and pen in brown ink, with opaque white, over traces of graphite or black chalk; framing line in brown ink

Rijksmuseum

A woman carrying a basket on her head walks away from the viewer towards a river scene with fishermen and other figures. Buildings and a bridge are visible in the background. …; sale, Dirk Vis Blokhuyzen (1799-1869, Rotterdam), Rotterdam (D.A. Lamme), 23 October 1871 <em>sqq.</em>, no. 11 (‘_<em>Pêcheur an bord d'une rivière. A l'aquarelle</em>_’), fl. 14, to J.F. Ellinckhuysen (1814-97), Rotterdam;{Copy RKD.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller <em>et al.</em>), 19 November 1878 <em>sqq.</em>, no. 8 (‘_<em>Paysage, animé de pécheurs. Au lointain la ville de Kampen. A l’aquarelle. - H. 14.5, L. 19.</em>_ […]’), fl. 62, to Georg Carl Valentin Schöffer (1841-1915, Amsterdam and Scheveningen);{Copy RKD.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 30 May 1893 <em>sqq.</em>, no. 6 (‘_<em>Rempart de ville, avec des pêcheu