Jacob Hoefnagel

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Jacob Hoefnagel
1573?-ca. 1632
Winter
Watercolor and opaque watercolor, bordered in gold, on parchment.
5 3/4 x 6 inches (145 x 152 mm)
Gift of Sally Sample Aall.
1998.13
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Inscribed in gold: at top center, "Hyems"; at lower center, on leather cartouche pasted to sheet, "... Hyems simisq, capsu petit aedu...fundit madidda...Febaur...".

Provenance: 
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 26 November 1984, lot 49 (purchased by a private collector, New York); Richard Day, Ltd., London; Sally Sample Aall, New York.
Associated names: 

Aall, Sally Sample, 1926- former owner.

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