Dutch and Flemish Schools, 17th and 18th Century
Four Framed Drawings: Manner of Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, 1620-1683), Travelers/Herdsmen with Animals on a Road, Distant Castle/Monastery, inscribed "Claes Berchem" in a later hand, numbered "108" in ink, with a collector's stamp from Christian Hammer, Stockholm (L.1237) and the remnants of a red wax seal, all on the reverse, pen and ink on paper, 9 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.; Manner of David Teniers II, Sketch of a Soldier Raising a Glass, unsigned, inscribed "D. Teniers" in pencil on the reverse, black chalk on laid paper, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.; Manner of Frans Wouters (Flemish, 1612-1659), Rear View of a Soldier Escorting a Woman Along a Wooded Path, inscribed "Wouters" l.l., black chalk on laid paper bearing partial foolscap watermark, 7 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.; Dutch School, 17th Century Style, Landscape with Figures and Livestock, unsigned, black and brown pen and ink with gray wash on wove paper, 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 in. Condition: Berchem with crease u.l. quadrant, staining to the reverse; Teniers with toning, foxing, remnants of old mounting in the corners of the reverse with areas of thin paper and small holes where mounts were partially removed, pinhole puncture u.c. edge; Wouters with sheet trimmed diagonally at corners, crease across left side, vertical crease at center, foxing, toning; Dutch Landscape with sheet marked with pencil grid to define image area, foxing.
Provenance: The estate of George Way, Staten Island, New York.
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