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* Ferdinand Bol Dordrecht 1616 - 1680 Amsterdam
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Description
- Ferdinand Bol
- study of a sleeping figure
- pen and brown ink over black chalk, enclosed in a gold frame set with 80 diamonds, 6 1/2 karats in all
Provenance
John Gilbert Ramsay, 15th Earl of Dalhousie, Dalhousie Castle, Midlothian (L.717a; presumably from the eighteenth century album of drawings by Rembrandt and his pupils, notably Nicolas Maes, which was sold in 1922 to P.&D. Colnaghi, London, and subsequently dispersed by Cassirer, Berlin);
W.R. Valentiner;
Schaeffer Galleries;
H. Becker, Dortmund;
L.A. Houthakker;
D. Weitzner;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 8 January 1991, lot 28.
W.R. Valentiner;
Schaeffer Galleries;
H. Becker, Dortmund;
L.A. Houthakker;
D. Weitzner;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 8 January 1991, lot 28.
Exhibited
Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, In Memory of W.R. Valentiner: Masterpieces of Art, 1959, pp. 138-9, no. 76, reproduced (as Rembrandt)
Literature
O. Benesch, 'Neuentdeckte Zeichnungen,' in Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, vol. 6, Berlin 1964, pp. 114-115, fig. 12 (as Rembrandt);
idem, 'Newly Discovered Drawings by Rembrandt,' in Collected Writings, vol. I, London 1970, pp. 252-253, fig. 216 (as Rembrandt);
idem, The Drawings of Rembrandt, vol. I, London 1973, no. 127a, fig. 150 (as Rembrandt);
Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. I, New York 1979, pp. 200-201, no. 88, reproduced (as Bol);
idem, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. I, Landau-Pfalz 1983, p. 291.
idem, 'Newly Discovered Drawings by Rembrandt,' in Collected Writings, vol. I, London 1970, pp. 252-253, fig. 216 (as Rembrandt);
idem, The Drawings of Rembrandt, vol. I, London 1973, no. 127a, fig. 150 (as Rembrandt);
Werner Sumowski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. I, New York 1979, pp. 200-201, no. 88, reproduced (as Bol);
idem, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. I, Landau-Pfalz 1983, p. 291.
Catalogue Note
Sumowski, correcting Valentiner and Benesch, has identified this as a study for one of the sleeping warriors in Bol's early Liberation of St Peter, which exists both as a large, worked up drawing (Sumowski 87; present location unknown), and as a painting of about 1640 (Sumowski 78; coll. Pieter K. Baaij, Schoten). The two drawings certainly predate the painting, and must have been executed not very long after 1636, when Bol began his four year apprenticeship with Rembrandt.