Lot 33
  • 33

Pieter Jansz. Quast

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pieter Jansz. Quast
  • head and shoulders study of a moustachioed man in profile, wearing a tall hat
  • Black chalk;
    signed with monogram and dated in black chalk: PQ 1632;
    bears old attribution in black ink, lower left: Quast.

Provenance

Emile E. Wolf;
sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 25 November 1991, lot 77;
Jacobus A. Klaver, Amsterdam 

Exhibited

C.E. Gilbert, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from a Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1979, no. 21, reproduced

Literature

 

Condition

Unframed. Edged with japan paper. There is a small light brown stain in the upper right corner, and a little surface dirt overall, but otherwise the condition seems fine.
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