Sailboats on the Old Rhine near Alphen
  • Theodor Dirk Verrijk
  • Haarlem 1734 - 1786 The Hague
  • Sailboats on the Old Rhine near Alphen
  • Gouache over black chalk, on wove paper,
    framing lines in pen and brown ink
  • 231 × 367 mm
Provenance:
Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris 1962,
Private collection, Paris

The picturesque village of Alphen lies between Leiden and Utrecht on a old branch of the Rhine. Dirk Verrijk also drew other views of this idyllic site.1

  1. See Christie’s Amsterdam, Nov. 5, 2003, lot 132.