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Artist/Maker(s): Gerard van Nijmegen (Dutch, 1735 - 1808)
Culture: Dutch
Place(s): Netherlands (Place created)
Date: 1801
Medium: Pencil, pen and gray and brown ink, and gray wash
Dimensions: 38 x 27.4 cm (14 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions: Inscribed on recto on the wall: Teekeningen/van/Verscheiden Meesters (Drawings of Various Masters) Inscribed, signed and dated on lower verso: Den Schilderkunst, in den gedaanten eener Herderinnen, bekrrond en Herder/als, vinder Van den Teekenkunst.- inv et Fecit, door/Gerard van Nijmegen/1801 (The Art of Painting, in the guise of a shepherdess, crowns a shepherd as the discoverer of Drawing. Invented and made by Gerard van Nijmegen 1801)
Alternate Title(s): A Design for a Title Page (Alternate Title)
Allegory of Painting and Drawing (Display Title)
SKU: 200113
