Dusart Cornelis - The Kermesse - Etching on paper (1685)
Lot 13 · Auction 05 - Old Master Prints and Maps · 15 April 2025
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
Signed and dated on the left lower margin of the plate: “Corn. Dusart fe. 1685”. On Netherlandish watermarked paper. Very good conditions. Beautiful etching describes a scene of ordinary peasant’s life. Passepartout included: cm 47.5 x 56
Reference: Bartsch n.16.
Cornelis Dusart (Haarlem, 1660 - 1704), Netherlandish painter and engraver, apprentice of Adriaen van Ostade, he was accepted by the Corporation of Saint Luca of Harleem in 1679. Remarkable his detailed artworks of ordinary peasant life.