Two Old Men beside a Sled Bearing the Coats of Arms of Amsterdam and Utrecht

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso, center, in pen and brown ink: "20010"; lower left, in graphite: "brbs/ 3180" (in oval); in graphite: "Avercamp"; lower left, in pen and ink: "2074"; center in graphite: "coll. Ten Cate cat. 1955 # 173"

Exhibition history

Amsterdam, Bernard Houthakker Gallery, Dessins anciens: Français, Hollandais, Italiens exposés chez Bernard Houthakker, July–August 1952, p. 1, no. 1 (not ill). Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, Jan. 30–Mar. 13, 1977, p. 17–18, cat. 14, by Franklin Robinson; also the Denver Art Museum, Apr. 1–May 15, 1977, and Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, June 1–July 15, 1977. Art Institute of Chicago, Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958–1983, July 24–Sept. 30, 1985, pp. 74–75, cat. 28 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 36-37, 38-39 (ill.), 40-41, 44, 287, cat. 7, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Publications

Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus Deutschem Privatbesitz (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz,1922), no. 12, p. 9 (ill). Clara J. Welcker, Hendrik Avercamp, 1585–1634, Bijgenaamd ‘de Stomme van Campen’ en Barent Avercamp, 1612–1679, ‘Schilders tot Campen’ (Zwolle: De Erven J. L. Tijl, 1933), p. 282, T587. D. Hannema, Catalogue of the H.E. ten Cate Collection (Rotterdam: AD Donker, 1955), I:104, no. 173, and II: pl. 92. Clara J. Welcker, Hendrik Avercamp, 1585–1634, Bijgenaamd ‘de Stomme van Campen’ en Barent Avercamp, 1612–1679, ‘Schilders tot Campen’ with revised catalogue raisonné by D.J. Hensbroek-van der Poel (Doornspijk: Davaco Publishers, 1979), p. 271, T116.1. Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors), Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (South Bend, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 115, no. 46, pp. 124–25 (ill.)

Quick Overview

Artist: Hendrick Avercamp / Netherlandish, 1585-c.1633
Date: 1620/33
Medium: Opaque and translucent watercolors, with pen and brown ink, over graphite, on cream laid paper
Dimensions: 18.3 × 30 cm (7 1/4 × 11 13/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: watercolor
Place: Netherlands
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Accession no.: 1965.30

Provenance

Dionis Muilman, Amsterdam; sold, Kunstboeck A, Amsterdam, Mar. 29, 1773, lot 24, to Pieter Oets [Keyes 2014; published earlier in Welcker]; sold, Kunstboeck C, Amsterdam, Jan. 31, 1791, lot 34. Ignatius Franciscus Ellinckuysen (died 1897), Rotterdam 1879; sold, Frederick Muller and Company and C. M. van Gogh, Amsterdam, Apr. 16–17, 1879, lot 6, to A. G. deVisser, The Hague; sold, Frederik Muller and Company, Amsterdam, May 16–18, 1881, lot 3, to Linnig [Keyes 2014; published earlier in Welcker ]. Sold, Frederik Muller and Company, Amsterdam, June 15–18, 1908, lot 16, to Shrey, Frankfurt-am-Main [Welcker 1933]. Sold by Artaria and Company, Vienna, to Curt Otto (c. 1880–1929), Leipzig, 1909 [stamp (Lugt 611c), verso, lower left, in brown]; sold, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, Nov. 7, 1929, lot 4, to Houthakker [according to Dr. F. Carlo Schmid of Boerner; this is likely Bernard Houthakker (1884–1963), a dealer and collector of prints and drawings in Amsterdam] [until 1952 at least]. Oldenzaal [Keyes 2014]. Hendrikus Egbertus ten Cate (1868–1955), Rotterdam, by 1955 [Hannema 1955]; sold, C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, Dec. 1–15, 1964, ten Cate sale, lot 2, to the Art Institute of Chicago.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.