The Ingram Collection - Drawings from the Collection of the late Michael Ingram

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Lot 35
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Jan de Bray Haarlem circa 1627 - 1697

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Description

  • Jan de Bray
  • a standing bearded man, pulling a cord
  • bears attribution, lower right: de Bray
    red chalk heightened with white chalk, on buff paper

Provenance

Karl Eduard von Liphart (L.1687);
by inheritance to his grandson, Freiherr Reinhold von Liphart (L.1758);
purchased by Michael Ingram from Alister Mathews, 1958;
bears unidentified collector's mark, verso (not in Lugt) 

Exhibited

Winchester College, 1963

Catalogue Note

A number of compositional studies by De Bray are known, but individual figure studies such as this are rare.  A black chalk study of a young man, dated 1662, is in Leipzig (Museum der bildenden Künste, inv.nr. 403; see J.W. von Moltke, 'Jan de Bray', Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 11/12 (1938/39), no. Z 108).