Old 19th C Drawing Attr To Andreas Schelfhout (the Hague 1787 - 1870) Mountainous Landscape

Attributed to Andreas Schelfhout (The Hague 1787 – 1870 The Hague)

Mountainous Landscape

Pencil on handmade laid paper, fragmentary watermark, 184 x 258 mm

Provenance
Private collection, The Netherlands

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Andreas Schelfhout is a major representative of the Dutch Romantic school of painters. He is best known for his panoramic and winter landscapes. Schelfhout visited Paris in 1833, where he came into contact with the French Romantic landscape tradition, prompting a freer style. The French visit also encouraged Schelfhout to paint directly from nature, producing plein air sketches. Schelfhout taught at the academy in The Hague, where his pupils included the young Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891).

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