Flemish School, 17th Century

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Description

studies of hands
Black and white chalk, within black ink framing lines, on blue paper;
a slight drapery study on the verso;
bears faint inscription, lower left: A V Dyck

Provenance

Dr. J. den Hartogh, Zeist, 1962;
Hans van Leeuwen, Amerongen (L.2799a, in blue, on white tab of paper fixed to verso), his sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 24 November 1992, lot 62 (as Dutch School, 17th Century)

Exhibited

Included in seven Van Leeuwen Collection exhibitions, between 1963 and 1984, in every case as by Sir Anthony van Dyck. (For full details see the online catalogue entry for this lot.)

Condition

Paper a little browned in places. Light horizontal crease across centre. Some very light staining. A few minor thin areas. Otherwise generally good. Sold in a modern 17th-century-style black wood frame.
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Catalogue Note

Exhibited:
(in all cases exhibited as A. van Dyck)
Laren, Singer Museum, Nederlandse Tekeningen, Collectie Hans van Leeuwen, 1963, no. 40;
Nijmegen, Waag Museum, Tekeningen uit de Collectie Hans van Leeuwen, 1965, no. 13;
Leeuwaarden, Museum Princessehof, Tentoonstelling Oude Tekeningen uit Drie Eeuwen, Collectie Hans van Leeuwen,1966, no. 7;
Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum (and Saarbrücken & Bochum), Niederländische Zeichnungen des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Hans van Leeuwen, Utrecht, 1968-69, no. 41;
Rheydt, Niederländische Zeichnungen des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Hans van Leeuwen, Utrecht, 1971, no. 22;
Bremen, Kunsthalle (and Braunschweig & Stuttgart), Meisterzeichnungen aus drei Jahrhunderts. Niederländische Zeichnungen des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Hans van Leeuwen, 1979-80, no 38;
Fribourg, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (and Passau, Trier, Aachen & Nuremberg), Niederländische Meisterzeichnungen des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Hans van Leeuwen, 1982-84, no. 24

The suggestion in the 1992 sale catalogue that this drawing is Dutch, rather than Flemish, and possibly from the circle of Netscher, is surprising; the conception, scale and handling all seem much closer to Van Dyck.