Karel la Fargue, Landscape with skaters on a frozen canal

English

Drawn by Karel la Fargue (1738 - 1793) in manner/style of Aert van der Neer (1604 - 1677)

Landscape with skaters on a frozen canal; numerous figures on the ice, some playing 'Colf', two horse-drawn sleds and a windmill beyond, to right a row of houses and trees

Karel la Fargue: Painter, working in The Hague. Also made forgeries of eighteenth-century drawings.

Black chalk, with grey and yellow-brown wash. 157 x 216 mm. Inscribed with false monogram: "AVDN"

British Museum (AN379851001/1895,0915.1242). In 1895 purchased from Col John Wingfield Malcolm of Poltalloch

Literature

• C. Dumas and M.C. Plomp, 'Karel la Fargue (1738-1793) as a forger of seventeenth-century Dutch drawings', Oud Holland, vol.112, 1998, p.50, no.100, repr.
• W. Schulz, Aert van der Neer, Doornspijk, 2002, p.490.