Lot 112
  • 112

Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam Zwammerdam circa 1622/30 - after 1669 Leiden

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Description

  • Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam
  • a seated young woman embroidering a cloth, her feet resting on a foot-warmer
  • bears partial lettering in brown ink, lower left
    black chalk, heightened with white chalk on blue paper, within black chalk framing lines

Provenance

bears numbering and initials black ink, lower left of verso: No 247/EW (?)

Catalogue Note

Brekelenkam's figure drawings are sometimes rather closer in style to Adriaen van Ostade than is the case here, but the substantial group of studies by the artist in Braunschweig also contains several works that are very comparable to this:  particularly close is a study of an old lady sitting reading, with her feet on a similar foot-warmer (inv. Z 1199).