Antique Drawing-FEMALE-SKATER-FIGURE-Versteeg-1771-1843

Medium: Crayon on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 28 x 40.5 cm (11.02 x 15.94 inch). Image size: 28 x 40.5 cm. (11.02 x 15.94 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Foxing and stains in the margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

MICHIEL VERSTEEG, DUTCH DRAWING, SKATER, GENRE SCENE, DORDRECHT | PCO-B11-

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Attributed on verso to Michiel Versteeg.

Reference: J. Erkelens, Tussen zonnegoud en kaarslicht: Dordtse meesters 1780-1840, Dordrecht Museum.

Biography artist: Michiel Versteeg (1756-1843) was a Dutch painter and draughtsman active in Dordrecht. He worked during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and produced portraits, genre scenes and drawings. Versteeg belongs to the group of Dordrecht artists active in the period between roughly 1780 and 1840, whose work continued the Dutch tradition of detailed figure and genre drawings.