Cornelis de Wael (Antwerp 1592 - 1667)
Travellers arriving in a Village
pen in brown, on laid paper
200 x 275 mm
Like his brother Jan, the Antwerp-born Cornelis de Wael was active for most in his life in Italy, in particular in Genoa and Rome. In his pen drawings, executed in...
Like his brother Jan, the Antwerp-born Cornelis de Wael was active for most in his life in Italy, in particular in Genoa and Rome. In his pen drawings, executed in a swift style, he focused on genre scenes, as evident in the present examples, as well in such sheets as those contained in an album in the British Museum, London (inv. 1836,0811.614-1836,0811.667), or one in the Art Institute of Chicago, inv. 1922.1947 (A.-M. Logan, Flemish Drawings in the Age of Rubens. Selected Works from American Collections, , exhib. cat., Wellesley College, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, and Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993-1994, no. 75, ill.).