Featured Small original ink drawing "Skinny Horse" Maybe Rocinante..??

No problem- is 'Passepartout' Gaelic ?

 

I'm pretty sure it's French

 

it's the mat..

par...tout = all over

 

Oxford Languages give this definition

"a picture or photograph simply mounted between a piece of glass and a sheet of cardboard (or two pieces of glass) stuck together at the edges with adhesive tape."

I have also seen it as the name of the tape itself.

 

Thanks for the translation.

 

As per what I learnt yesterday.....It has been sold as a XVIIth and not as a I tought a XIXth cent ink drawing....(was not mentionned at start..!!!)Hope it is not from a VW Known old master...????

 

I wouldn't call this mounting passepartout. See this thread for passepartout: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/reverse-painted-silhouette.77336/#post-9337043 (And the name of Phineas Fog's valet in "Around the World in 80 Days".) This looks more formally framed.

Personally, I'm not getting a baroque (17thC) sensation from this drawing, but my knowledge is not sufficiently in-depth for that to be meaningful.

When you said you were willing to spend 20€, I thought that was inexpensive for an original drawing, but I don't do valuations (lack of knowledge and experience), I don't know the circumstances of the sale or the venue in which you found it, and I don't know your financial circumstances. Not my place to suggest you spend more.

But not to worry: there will be other drawings, and you now have a bit more knowledge and experience yourself.

 

Wow Ok that’s something. Hopefully you don’t see it in a exclusive high-end auction soon. Accredited to some major artist with proof or certification (that will hurt!) I think this will haunt you for quite a while still. But not your fault if you didn’t have all/right the info.

 

Thru pain can come wisdom friend.

 

A fancy word used for mat.

Debora

 

Could be by or after Dirk Stoop (c.1615–1686). He did unromantic portraits of working horses, the prints selling between £100 and £200. If this is indeed a pen and ink drawing it certainly is worth the sale price it made.