- 132
Dutch School, 17th century
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- A standing man wearing a cape and hat, seen from the side
- Black and white chalk;
bears inscription, lower left, in brown ink: jean miel 01 and numbered, lower right: 33
Provenance
Sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 10 November 1999, lot 327 (as Attributed to Jan Miel);
sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 July 2003, lot 99 (as French School, 17th Century)
sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 July 2003, lot 99 (as French School, 17th Century)
Literature
This drawings is one of a group of similarly executed, inscribed and numbered figure studies, such as the one in the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam.1 Following the inscriptions that they all bear, these drawings have generally been attributed to Jan Miel, but there is no real evidence to support this tradition. They must, however, be by one of the many other good northern draughtsmen who worked in Italy in the mid-17th century.
1 See Italianisanten en Bamboccianten, exhib. cat., Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1988, cat. 57, illus.