Lot 290
  • 290

Attributed to Nicolaes Maes

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Nicolaes Maes
  • A bearded man in a large hat
  • Reed pen and brown ink and brown wash, with correction in white heightening;
    bears numbering (price?) in red chalk, verso: ..15 - 15 / fl. 9
  • 5 by 2 1/4 in.; 12.5 by 5.6 cm.

Provenance

Andrew James;
with Herman Shickman, New York, from whom bought by the present owner

Condition

Window mounted. Repaired loss, top left corner. Ink somewhat sunk. Correction by the artist around figure's waist. Sold in a modern gilded frame.
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Catalogue Note

A typical work of the Rembrandt school, this drawing shares similarities with pen and wash drawings by Maes, see for example, W. Sumoski, Drawings of the Rembrandt School, New York 1984, vol. 8, p. 4152, no. 1853x.