- 152
Dutch School, 17th century
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Seated Woman, seen from the side
- Black and white chalk on brownish-gray prepared paper, within brown ink framing lines;
bears extensive inscriptions in pen and ink, verso (many individual words but no sentences)
Catalogue Note
This drawing belongs to a group of figure studies that are clearly by the same hand, and mostly drawn on the same type of prepared surface. A Seated woman making pancakes from the same series was formerly in the Van Regteren Altena Collection1 and another was in the Van Leeuwen Collection. Those drawings originated from a group of around a dozen that emerged from the library of Fraelemaborg Castle in 1971.2 Shortly afterwards, Peter Schatborn attributed these drawings to Govert Flinck3, but in the light of four more decades of research into the drawings of the Rembrandt school, Schatborn no longer considers the attribution sustainable.
1. Sold Amsterdam, Christie's, 10 December 2014, lot 172 (as Attributed to Govert Flinck)
2. Sale Utrecht, Beyers, 6-7 October 1971, in lot 674
3. P. Schatborn, 'Een toeschrijving aan Govaert Flinck', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, XXII, 1974, pp. 111-120