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Frans de Groen does not appear in the well-known overviews of Dutch visual artists. Yet many of his etchings are known, especially of cityscapes of pre-war Rotterdam and Schiedam.
Frans de Groen worked in a romantic realistic style. His annotations are not always entirely correct; there are known etchings of him with different annotations, even different locations. Almost all of his known etchings are signed and annotated in pencil. Some etchings with monogram in the print
The work depicted is an etching from the collection of "Rijnmond Toen" under no. 040-FG. The etching depicts the Cheese Market in pre-war Rotterdam. This part of the center of Rotterdam was lost during the bombing in 1940.
Annotation in pencil lo in the margin: "Kaasmarkt Rdam"
Signed in pencil ro in the margin.
dim. image 193 x 285 mm
dim. blade: 248 x 360 mm
dim. passe-partout 276 x 406 mm