Print Description
Medium: Pencil and watercolour on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 25.5 x 20.6 cm (10.04 x 8.11 inch). Image size: 25.5 x 20.6 cm. (10.04 x 8.11 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Foxing and minor edge wear. Attached to a carrier. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
FERDINAND DE BRAEKELEER, FLEMISH DRAWING, WINTER SCENE, GENRE DRAWING, ANTWERP | PCO-B11-
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Signed drawing by Ferdinand de Braekeleer.
Biography artist: Ferdinand de Braekeleer the Elder (1792-1883) was a Flemish painter and printmaker from Antwerp. He trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp under Mattheus Ignatius van Bree and won the Dutch Prix de Rome in 1819. De Braekeleer became one of the most respected Belgian genre painters of the nineteenth century, known for scenes of everyday life inspired by seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish masters such as Jan Steen, Adriaen van Ostade and David Teniers the Younger. He later served as professor at the Antwerp Academy and curator of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.
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