Attributed to Horatius de Hooch (active 1652-1686)

There are few known drawings by Horatius de Hooch, who was active in Utrecht around 1652-1686. However, the technique of this drawing, with its loose handling of the wash for the hills and more precise for the architecture, is characteristic. It is closely comparable to the technique used in The Aurelian Wall in Rome (?) in the Landesmuseum, Mainz (see P. Schatborn, Drawn to Warmth: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Artists in Italy, exhib. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 2001, p. 140, Fig. A).