A Woman Standing at an Open Sash Window, a Small Boy Beside Her 1761-1813 Anthonie Andriessen Dutch A young woman and a boy stand before an open window on what seems to be a sunny day. Dressed in eighteenth-century fashion, their physical appearance is highly stylized - a typical feature of the art of the time.Anthonie Andriessen was the lesser known brother of the eighteenth-century Dutch artist Jurriaan Andriessen (1742-1819). Both were active as painters of wallpaper, at a time when many a Dutch town house was decorated wall-hangings, showing lavish arcadian landscapes. It comes as no surprise that the majority of Andriessens oeuvre consists of views of forests and meadows. The present sheet, however, belongs to a small group of figure studies that he made. Andriessens nephew, Christiaan (1775-1848), himself an amateur draftsman, produced similar drawings of scenes of every-day life. Christiaan famously illustrated his diary with humorous sketches of recent events and anecdotes. W
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