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Winter Landscape with a Man Crossing

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Date: c. 1660
Medium: Black chalk, over translucent and opaque watercolors, with touches of white chalk (recto) and pen and brown ink ledger (verso) on off-white laid paper, incised for transfer
Culture: Netherlands
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 192875

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At first glance, this drawing seems unremarkable in its choice of subject. A man crosses a bridge on a winter day, with humble structures and trees behind him. But the artist described the scene with such a broad range of colors, further elaborated with white chalk, that he imparted a sense of magic to the routines of daily life.

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Credit line: Gift of Celia and David Hilliard
Provenance: William Pitcairn Knowles (1820–1894), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden [stamp (Lugt 2643) verso, lower left, in purple]; sold, Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, June 25, 1895, lot 732. Private collection; sold, Sotheby’s (Kunstveilingen Maak van Waay B.V.), Amsterdam, June 10, 1975, lot 114, to British Rail Pension Fund; sold, Sotheby's, London, Jan. 8, 1991, lot 121, to David and Celia Hilliard, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec., 2007.