Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

Sir Peter Lely

Recto: Portrait of a lady Verso: head studies

Lot Closed

December 4, 05:17 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Sir Peter Lely

Soest 1618 - 1680 London

Recto: Portrait of a lady

Verso: head studies

Black, red and white chalk, on laid buff-coloured paper;

inscribed lower left: PL PLely 1638 and further inscribed lower right: 421 [?]

framed: 345 by 284 mm.

unframed: 251 by 187 mm. (sight size)

The drawing on the recto of this sheet is based on a work by Sir Peter Lely now held at The Morgan Library & Musuem, New York (1909.III, 201).

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