Live auction - Lot 364
The newspaper-vendor.
DE BRAEKELEER, Ferdinand I
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
1827
Drawing, black chalk, 37 x 25 cm, blue paper, signed and dated at lower left (laid down on cardboard).
Under passe-partout.
This representation of a local (Antwerp?) newspaper-salesman (offering i.a. "Nieuwen Almenach voor het jaer 1827") by the Ferdinand De Braeckeleer (1792-1883), is one of the finer examples of Belgian Realism.
Expo. "Exposition Société des bibliophiles et iconophiles", Brussels, 1988.