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About this work

You see a small, smudged drawing of a street scene—figures in long coats, a horse-drawn cart, and a row of tall, narrow houses under a cloudy sky. No one knows who made it or what it was called. It was tucked inside a big folder of old sketches at the Rijksmuseum, sorted by a number instead of a name. That folder, the Atlas Van Eck, holds hundreds of forgotten works like this one. Next, spend a few minutes with the Rijksmuseum’s online collection to see more of these quiet, unnamed drawings.