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Andries Both
Description
- Andries Both
- A scene of diablerie
- Black chalk, with a further slight figure study in red chalk in the top right corner
- 54 1/4 x 72 3/8 inches
- 138 x 184 mm
Provenance
sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 2007, lot 74,
where acquired by the late Jan Krugier
Catalogue Note
The tradition of representations of diableries was, of course, a long-standing one in Netherlandish art. Such subjects were most extensively popularised by 16th-century artists from Breugel to Bosch, but Jacques de Gheyn and others continued to make such drawings and prints well into the 17th century, and the theme continued to be represented by artists as diverse as Cornelis Saftleven and Andries Both, whose common ground would otherwise seem to be limited to the fact that they grew up in Utrecht at around the same time.
1. Inv. no. 6633
2. Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, 19 February 1942, lot 413; New York, Sotheby's, 13 January 1989, lot 28, and 23 January 2001, lot 147. See the catalogue entry for this last sale for a more extensive discussion of these drawings.
3. E. Bock & J. Rosenberg, Die Zeichnungen alter Meister...Berlin...niederländischen Meister, 2 vols., Berlin 1930, nos. 551 (signed), 2265, 5442.