[Trompe l'oeil with riddle].

Drawing, pen and brown ink, watercolour, 39,3 x 29,5 cm, signed "Crijn Van Zuyderhoudt" (some min. def. in pictorial layer).

Stuck under glass and wooden frame (not studied outside frame, inner frame painted red).

A nice trompe l'oeil drawing, by the Amsterdam artist Cryn van Zuyderhoudt, who specialised in the genre. One of his better-known illusionistic drawings is now kept in the collection of the Rijksmuseum (RP-T-1916-21).