This drawing has been in the museum’s collection for over 70 years and has never been studied or exhibited; it has never been published or received a secure attribution. On the obverse is a mountainous landscape, framed by rocks and a tree in the foreground. On the reverse, a man in a cloak with a woman, standing before a naked beggar on the ground. A collector’s mark on the reverse indicates the drawing was in the collection of Wilhelm Koller in Vienna in the 19th century, although the drawing cannot be positively identified with any of the works described in the auction at the end of his life. It may have been included in one of the larger group lots at the sale. Only two attributions have been tentatively proposed, to landscape artists Jan van Almeloveen and Jacob Esselens, although neither is satisfactory.
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Stefan Bartilla July 21, 20259:07 pm
In my opinion, this drawing is clearly by the Master of the Budapest Sketchbook or Coenraat van Schilperoort, compare here:
Wilhelm Koller (d. 1871) (L.2632), Vienna; collected by Hersey Egginton (1875-1951); bequeathed to his wife, Mary E. (Benner) Egginton (1875-1962), Garden City, New York, 1951; given to present collection, 1954.
Stefan Bartilla July 21, 2025 9:07 pm
In my opinion, this drawing is clearly by the Master of the Budapest Sketchbook or Coenraat van Schilperoort, compare here:
http://www.mfab.hu/artworks/11803/
http://www.mfab.hu/artworks/11805/
He was identified as Coenraet van Schilperoort.
https://rkd.nl/artists/92726
Drawing in the Rijksmuseum:
https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200117689
Stefan Bartilla July 18, 2025 1:42 pm
The drawing is in my opinion by the Master of the Budapest Sketchbook, compare by example:
http://www.mfab.hu/artworks/11803/
He was identified as Coenraet van Schilperoort, but I do not know the reasons for that, I did not studied the case:
https://rkd.nl/artists/92726
Tom Nevile June 24, 2025 10:36 am
Anton Mirou?
https://www.szepmuveszeti.hu/mutargyak/11846/