The 50 plates / Plate 12 of 50
Plate 12 of 50
The Mail Sledge
Der Postschlitten
Hendrick Avercamp
Not yet located
The drawing
A richly colored winter scene of a mail sledge halted on the ice, with three men, a horse, and distant skaters, boats and buildings.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Hendrick Avercamp
- Title as printed
- Der Postschlitten
- Title in English
- The Mail Sledge
- Medium and size
- Watercolor, 17.7 × 29.2 cm
- Inscription
- Unsigned
- Collection in 1922
- Dr. Curt Otto, Leipzig
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Hendrick Avercamp, as attributed by Becker. No independent verification of this specific drawing has been located. The drawing fits within Avercamp’s documented body of finished watercolor winter scenes and figure studies. Comparable authenticated Avercamp sledge drawings survive at Windsor, Berlin and elsewhere.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 12.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.