The 50 plates / Plate 25 of 50
Plate 25 of 50
At the Village Tavern
Im Dorfwirtshaus
Cornelis Dusart
Not yet located
The drawing
A lively, richly colored Dutch tavern interior, with peasants drinking, smoking, laughing, and playing cards around a table. A man in white leans dramatically backward with his arms raised, while another drinks from a large jug. Two figures converse in a quieter corner at right.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Cornelis Dusart
- Title as printed
- Im Dorfwirtshaus
- Title in English
- At the Village Tavern
- Medium and size
- Watercolor on parchment, 25.9 × 33.2 cm
- Inscription
- Signed “C. Dusart”
- Collection in 1922
- Freiherr Speck von Sternburg, Lützschena (formerly Count Fries)
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
- Cornelis Dusart, as attributed by Becker. No independent modern attribution to this exact work has been established.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 25.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.