Lot 212: FRANÇOIS JOSEPH PFEIFFER THE YOUNGER LIÈGE 1778 - 1835 TERBORG

FROZEN RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH PEASANTS BREAKING ICE INTO BLOCKS, AND THE SUN SETTING

measurements note
245 by 310mm

signed and inscribed in brown ink, lower right: F.J. Pfeiffer...(illegible)

pen and brown ink and watercolour, with black ink framing lines

PROVENANCE

Bears collector's mark, possibly of Dr. A. Tardieu (L.183b)

NOTE

Pfeiffer was a pupil of his father, of the same name (1741-1807). From 1818 until 1832, he lived and worked in Amsterdam, as director and decorative painter at the municipal theatre. A good landscape watercolour by the artist is in the Teyler Museum, Haarlem (see Leslie A. Schwartz, The Dutch Drawings in the Teyler Museum, Artists Born Between 1740 and 1800, Haarlem/Ghent/Doornspijk 2004, cat. no. 422).